6 sentences with 'coincidence'
Example sentences and phrases with the word coincidence and other words derived from it.
• « It is no coincidence that this is where civilisation was born: as in nearby Egypt and the Nile River, early agriculture depended on a regular supply of water in a very fertile region. »
• « It is no coincidence that the year 1492 is often used as the starting point of what historians call the early modern period: when the two global hemispheres first came into sustained contact, it was the starting point of massive change for the human species as a whole. »
• « Thus, too often working-class men turned to alcohol as a solace; it is no coincidence that the first-wave feminist movement was closely linked to the temperance movement that sought the legal prohibition of alcohol. »
• « It is no coincidence that the fashion for kilts in Scotland, those now identified with clan identity, first emerged in the 1820s rather than earlier. »
• « What do modernist art, Freudian psychology, gender change and the Great Depression have in common, apart from chronological coincidence? They were all, in different ways, symptoms of upheaval and (often) a profound sense of malaise that pervaded Western culture after the First World War. »
• « Why Atlantis? Among the many versions circulating about the existence of this place, there is not a complete coincidence with Pluto's description, but at least there are geological clues and geographical settings that fit his account. »