Vicissitudes Example Sentences

Definition:

1 : the quality or state of being changeable
2 a : a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition
b : a difficulty or hardship usually beyond one's control
: a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.


The vicissitudes of life strike us all.

A business run by moral agents will not be able to survive the vicissitudes of the marketplace.

The professional writer has to undergo many sad vicissitudes.

He set out the various vicissitudes in addressing the contract.

He had the ability to change with the times and to share the vicissitudes of opinion.

The parental vicissitude I currently have is trying to pay child support for six children.

My vicissitude in college was tackling seven classes and a job.

Though he had many vicissitudes in life, nothing would stop him from becoming an entrepreneur.

Some say that we must go through the vicissitudes in life to become a stronger person.

I love my annoying little brother, but we do have our vicissitudes.

Americans will have their financial vicissitudes in a recession.

Dealing with traffic is a vicissitude of city life.

Against all physical vicissitudes, he still won first place in the 5K run.

One vicissitude of owning a cat is that they shed hair everywhere.

Her vicissitudes in life made it a challenge to finish high school.

I have experienced many vicissitudes in my life, but managed to overcome the difficulties with my positive attitude

I did not know where I was and where was I heading for; my road was engulfed with the darkness of sorrows and vicissitudes.

I could not help reflecting on the strange vicissitudes of human life, and death, which levelled all distinctions between men of high and low degree.

Lambent Example Sentences

Definition:

1 : playing lightly on or over a surface
2 : softly bright or radiant
3 : marked by lightness or brilliance especially of expression


"It's an early May morning and the air is cool and still and filled with lambent light."

Clarke sent him a curious keen glance of intense and almost lambent inquiry, but he did not notice it.

She glanced at him with all the sweetness and tenderness of her great love lambent in her wistful sea-blue eyes.

Commutation Example Sentences

Definition:

law : a change of a punishment to a less severe one
: exchange, trade
: replacement; specifically : a substitution of one form of payment or charge for another
: a change of a legal penalty or punishment to a lesser one


He appealed for a commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment.

This board may allow commutation or diminution of sentence for good behaviour, meritorious services or exemplary conduct.

I was foolish enough to leave my commutation ticket at home.

The prisoner is expected to be executed within days, now that his request for commutation has been refused.