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 Sentences of coincidence
Definition:
n. two or more things occurring at the same time by chance
Example:
Was it just a coincidence that John and she had chanced to meet at the market, or was he deliberately trying to seek her out?
Sentence in Classic:
Considering how many hundreds of statues of the great Emperor must exist in London, it is too much to suppose such a coincidence as that a promiscuous iconoclast should chance to begin upon three specimens of the same bust.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle Context
All this is only the coincidence of conditions in which all vital organic and elemental events occur.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo Tolstoy Context
I could not disguise from myself, or from the waiter, that this was an uncomfortable coincidence, and inquired how it was done.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens Context
Still, the coincidence of our being together on the coach, was sufficiently strange to fill me with a dread that some other coincidence might at any moment connect me, in his hearing, with my name.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens Context
By a remarkable coincidence, the other two had been visited with the same unpleasant sensation at that precise moment.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens Context
And at such times his spirit would become softened, his thoughts full of gentleness, and his eyes wet with tears; he would fall to saying his prayers, and invariably some strange coincidence would bring an answer thereto in the shape of an unexpected measure of assistance.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Context
Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain conjectures of the indictment.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor Hugo Context
On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Cafe Musain.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo Context
There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had recently come to Cosette, and the habit of new clothes developed by that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo Context
Madame de Thoux and she, thus drawn together by the singular coincidence of their fortunes, proceeded immediately to Canada, and began a tour of inquiry among the stations, where the numerous fugitives from slavery are located.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe Context