Use crisis in a sentence
Sentences ending with crisis
- I shall always wonder what put a backbone into Fulkerson just at that crisis. [8]
- He seemed to understand that I was going through some sort of a crisis. [9]
- One trouble with the unfortunate man was that he realized but dimly the gravity of the crisis. [9]
- He read slowly that he might make up his mind how to act, what to say and do in this crisis. [11]
- It was possible that Carmen would also do exactly the opposite of what she meant to do in her own crisis. [11]
- At last Dicky suddenly changed his manner and came straight to the naked crisis. [11]
- However, as I said, we are past the crisis. [10]
- Was it in reality Nancy who had brought about this crisis? [9]
- He knew at once there was no treachery meant, and he guessed that Phips expected no crisis. [11]
- Miss Lucretia was never one to beat about the bush, even in the gravest crisis. [9]
Short sentences using crisis
- The crisis was over. [10]
- The crisis was near. [11]
- Every minute had its crisis. [11]
- It was an emotional crisis. [9]
- A crisis was at hand. [11]
Sentences containing crisis two or more times
- It was in the safe-keeping of M. Mornay at Montreal, who had warned M. Fille of the crisis in the money-master's affairs on the very day that the crisis came. [11]
- The rector of St. John's realized that a crisis had come in his life, --a crisis he had tried to stave off in vain. [9]
- Yet here was one who knew, here was one who had, for whatever purpose, precipitated a crisis with Fellowes to prevent a crisis with himself. [11]
- But the night in which the crisis, the fortunate crisis, of the fever occurred, he talked of a great flood coming from the North, and in his half-delirium bade them send to headquarters, and mournfully muttered of drowned plantations and human peril. [11]
- Then, between caring for the injured in the accident, against the coming of the relief train, and nursing the sick operator through the dark moments of his dangerous illness, he passed a crisis of his own disease triumphantly; but not the last crisis. [11]
More example sentences with the word crisis in them
- He saw crisis written on every feature of the face before him. [11]
- Some one conversing with her once objected, in my presence, to that part of "Jane Eyre" in which she hears Rochester's voice crying out to her in a great crisis of her life, he being many, many miles distant at the time. [14]
- I suppose it will, but then through some convulsed crisis, shattering all around it like an earthquake. [14]
- In his muttering, which was mixed with the curious, stingless profanity of which he was master, I caught the name of Cheyne, and I knew that he was facing the crisis of a fortnightly theme. [9]
- The crisis through which I passed at Cambridge, inaugurated by the events I have just related, I find very difficult to portray. [9]
- Even though he were not at a crisis in his affairs, a scandal of this kind would be fatal. [9]
- Accustomed as Janet was to these frequent arraignments of her father's inefficiency, it was gradually borne in upon her now--despite a preoccupation with her own fate--that the affair thus plaintively voiced by her mother was in effect a family crisis of the first magnitude. [9]
- Now, she felt, was the crisis at hand: the moment when her future, and his was to hang in the balance. [9]
- There was nothing to support her in the crisis but her own faith. [11]
- How was she to know that this hour was a crisis in her life? [4]
- For the third time in my life, and in the greatest crisis of all, I was feeling the need of Something, of some sustaining and impelling Power that must be presented humanly, possessing sympathy and understanding and love.... [9]
- That the crisis through which he had passed was that of a friend's life did not lessen the poignancy of the experience. [11]
- Through his life-work, through his ambition, through helping him as no one else could have done at the time of crisis, she had reached the farthest confines of his nature. [11]
- The crisis which threatened to divide the friends of the Union is past. [7]
- He felt that this was a crisis in their relations, and that it had come at an unfortunate hour. [9]
- He shaved through this financial crisis, in spite of the blow he had received by the loss of his lawsuits, the flitting of his cousin, Auguste Charron, and the farm debts of this same cousin. [11]
- He was viewing this crisis of his life as one sees a human face in the wide searching light of a great fire. [11]
- For a moment they had thought him inconsiderate to come among them in this crisis, for he was no longer of their scheme of things, and must be counted out, a beaten, battered, blind bankrupt. [11]
- I believe by these and other similar measures taken in that crisis, some of which were without any authority of law, the government was saved from overthrow. [7]
- He imagined that there was a kind of friendly feeling between them, and he feared some crisis would be provoked in his daughter's mental condition by the discovery. [6]
- I repeat, then, there is no crisis, excepting such a one as may be gotten up at any time by turbulent men aided by designing politicians, My advice to them, under such circumstances, is to keep cool. [7]
- It was all the while deemed possible that the necessity for it might come, and that if it should the crisis of the contest would then be presented. [7]
- It would bring the village to his shop door, precipitate the crisis upon the wrong incident. [11]
- The third is the rapid and near approach of that crisis on which all your thoughts and feelings concentrate. [7]
- The clicking of the locks of his companions' revolvers was instantly heard, and a crisis was expected. [5]
- Mr. Truesdale was the first, in his section, to be inspired by the happy thought that the one man preeminently fitted to represent the state in the present crisis, when her great industries had been crippled by Democratic folly, was Mr. Theodore Watling. [9]
- The events of the day at "The Red Eagle" had brought things to a crisis in the affairs of Carmen's father. [11]
- It might be the crisis of two lives, but to the spectator nothing more was seen than the everyday meeting of friends and acquaintances. [4]
- It was clear that Judge Carcasson felt deeply the dangers of the crisis, and that the futile outburst had merely been the agitated protest of the helpless. [11]
- I have intimated that I thought the agitation would not cease until a crisis should have been reached and passed. [7]
- He rose and stood gazing off down the valley once more, and she watched him with her heart beating, with a sense of an impending crisis which she seemed powerless to stave off. [9]
- He would have seen that the crisis was near. [11]
- I'll--" He paused, realising the crisis in which David was moving, and that perils were thick around their footsteps. [11]
- She had been prepared for these things, and Wylie Street was a shock to her: in sending her there at this crisis in her life fate had perpetrated nothing less than a huge practical joke. [9]
- It is a pleasure to record, at this crisis, that Mr. Crewe fixed upon his secretary as steady an eye as though Mr. Pardriff's bullet had missed its mark. [9]
- He hoped that perhaps a forced crisis might bring about a change. [11]
- There had been other ways to overcome this crisis, but he had rejected them for a course fantastic and fatal when looked at in the light of ordinary reason. [11]
- In the light of what came after, it was dishonourable--I grant that; but I did it at a crisis and for the fulfilment of a great ambition--and as much for you as for me. [11]
- Premonition, a troubling of the spirit, told her that she was in the presence of a crisis out of which she would not come unchanged. [11]
- The first crisis of her life was passed. [11]
- Perhaps, or perhaps not, she felt the crisis was approaching. [11]
- A crisis was near, and he must prepare to meet it. [11]
- In a great national crisis like ours, unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable, almost indispensable. [7]
- Even in his moments of crisis, in his hours of real tragedy, in the times when he was shaken to the centre, Jean Jacques fancied himself more than a little. [11]
- And this brings me to what I see may be a crisis in life. [4]
- About the time matters seemed at a crisis I was taken ill, and was ordered south. [11]
- Why should that man break in on every crisis? [11]
- If Delia had known that Gaston balanced the matter between her and Jacques, her indignation might perhaps have sent matters to a crisis. [11]
- In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. [7]
- In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. [7]
- In my opinion it will not cease till a crisis shall have been reached and passed. [7]
- This particular autumn it seemed to her that she could not get through another winter without something going wrong, without a crisis of some sort. [11]
- All at once it came to me strongly that the friction between the two villages had consummated in the foreman's injury, and was here coming to a painful crisis. [11]
- The turnkey, being in the very crisis and passion of a joke, motioned to her with his hand to keep silent one minute longer, for her life. [12]
- There is undoubtedly in such an office as the American presidency some virtue which, in times of crisis, inspires in capable men an intellectual and moral growth proportional to developing events. [9]
- How the woman in such a crisis hesitates before her wardrobe, and at last chooses just what will express her innermost feeling! [4]
- On other occasions, in other crisis, she had waited and watched for him in the parlor window, and to-night she was at the door before his key was in the lock, while he was still stamping the snow from his boots. [9]
- But at evening I knew by the movements in the house that the crisis had come. [4]
- The crisis of his life had come. [11]
- He had had his great crisis, and his wounded soul rested for a moment ere he ventured out upon the highways again. [11]
- Presently he recovered himself; but he offered no further greeting than to place a chair for her where her face was in the shadow and his in the light--time of crisis as it was, she noticed this and marvelled at him. [11]
- Tears sprang to her eyes, but she mastered herself, and brought the crisis abruptly. [11]
- One night as he walked home from a solemn meeting, at which several of his little playmates had "come forward," he felt that he could force the crisis. [4]
- Rockwell felt that he must hasten the crisis. [11]
- Quite beside himself he called aloud the name of his beloved, invoking in passionate tones the return of the Governor Amru, the only man who could help them in this crisis. [10]
- Of late she had felt that a crisis was near. [11]
- He had never had a political crisis, but one had come now. [11]
- Now in the great crisis, Wallstein, of them all, was the most self-possessed, save Rudyard Byng. [11]
- Now that the great crisis was over, now that the expected thing had come, and face to face with the cure, he had neither tongue, nor strength, nor wit. [11]
- He has the gifts of a leader, and he will do the job with no mistake, and in a time of crisis like this, that is essential. [11]
- One afternoon, when Gering was away with the canoes on the long search, the crisis came. [11]
- And when, this fortunate day, Justine herself came, and I told her that the crisis was past, she seemed infinitely relieved and happy. [11]
- To now reinforce Fort Pickens before a crisis would be reached at Fort Sumter was impossible--rendered so by the near exhaustion of provisions in the latter-named fort. [7]
- It was contemptible for a man in love to count his words, and it was intolerable to be haggling with himself at such a crisis over the expense of a despatch. [4]
- The Colonel stood for a full minute surveying us calmly,--a disquieting way he had when matters were at a crisis. [9]
- All this worked for a crisis. [11]
- The artist could find nothing to complain of in the morning except that the incandescent electric light in his chamber went out suddenly at midnight and left him in blank darkness in the most exciting crisis of a novel. [4]
- His was the fibre which grows stronger in times of crisis. [9]
- It was my fate to sink at the crisis, when I should have collected my strength. [14]
- The doctors are expecting a crisis. [2]
- He showed no excitement, though he knew a crisis was at hand. [11]
- The coarsely sarcastic editorial in yesterday's Alta, headed Give the Moral Acrobat a Rest--has brought things to a crisis, and I am charged with the unpleasant duty of receiving your resignation. [5]
- It was almost easier to bear up when the trial was at its crisis than now. [14]
- He knew that Donovan Pasha could hasten the crisis coming on him. [11]
- I know and deeply deplore the sufferings which the workingmen at Manchester, and in all Europe, are called to endure in this crisis. [7]
- He was not dead, but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. [2]
- She knew of De la Riviere's intentions, and she foresaw a crisis. [11]
- There befell a day when matters came to a crisis in the Grier family. [11]
- It ended one day in 1847, when his father died and it became necessary that each one should help somewhat in the domestic crisis. [5]
- He knew the danger that beset him, for he could not tell, in the crisis come to Mandakan, what designs might be abroad. [11]
- When, after the crisis, the doctor turned away from the bed, Jacques looked steadily into Blanche's eyes, and she flushed, and wiped the wet from his brow with her handkerchief. [11]
- Pierre saw the crisis, and acted instantly. [11]
- The sense of crisis was on him. [11]
- There was a crisis in the Soudan, there was trouble in the army, there was dark conspiracy of which he knew the heart, and anything might happen to-morrow! [11]
- And Clark was coming, for he was not the man to quail at such a crisis. [9]
- A crisis had come, vaguely foreseen, sombrely eluded. [11]
- The crisis had come which she had dreaded yet invited--that talk which they two must have before they went their different ways. [11]
- I did not care at all whether or no Gabord saw; but indeed he did not, as Alixe told me afterwards, for, womanlike, even in this sweet crisis she had an eye for such details. [11]
- The crisis of bereavement has an acute pang which goads to exertion; the desolate after-feeling sometimes paralyses. [14]
- As I said before, this crisis is all artificial! [7]
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