CRISIS in a Sentence

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For CRISIS, below is one of 196 sentences:
Each case has been the prelude to another, and the crisis once over, the actors have passed for ever out of our busy lives.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRISIS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
crisis
 n.  dangerous situation; crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  He was the trembling excited sort of lover, whose crisis soon came, and was finished.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  But then she soon learnt to hold him, to keep him there inside her when his crisis was over.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  wildly, passionately active, coming to her own crisis.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  Connie found it impossible to come to her crisis before he had really finished his.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  But once he had started her, it seemed only natural for her to come to her own crisis with him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  Connie attributed it to Mrs Bolton's influence upon him, just at the crisis in his life.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  I may be on their side in a political crisis, but being on their side makes me know how impossible it is to mix one's life with theirs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
8  This state of falsity had now brought on that crisis of falsity and dislocation, hysteria, which is a form of insanity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
9  The crisis of the disease was safely past.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  He was off in one of those hysterical outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis is over and gone.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
11  Having no mother, she had no one to advise her at such a crisis.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
12  When a crisis comes, as it will do, I will direct how you shall act.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
13  On the day of the crisis, however, his wife turned suddenly against him.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
14  I have already explained to you, however, that my career had in any case reached its crisis, and that no possible conclusion to it could be more congenial to me than this.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
15  Each case has been the prelude to another, and the crisis once over, the actors have passed for ever out of our busy lives.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
Example Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
16  The prime minister admitted that the crisis had been mishandled.
17  The National Assembly has discussed the crisis.
18  She publicly denounced the government's handling of the crisis.
19  The crisis has led to the closure of a number of non-essential government services.
20  She went through an identity crisis in her teens.
21  The Democrats have emerged triumphant from the political crisis.
22  Their relationship seems to lurch from one crisis to the next.
23  They will often rally in a crisis.
24  We provide help to families in crisis situations.
25  She's always to the fore at moments of crisis.
26  Her presence during the crisis had a calming effect.
27  The recent economic crisis has led to massive layoffs.
28  The crisis was resolved by negotiations.
29  He has brought much of the present crisis on himself.
30  Throughout the crisis he retained his composure.