How to Use contingency in a Sentence

contingency

noun

• In making our business plans, we tried to prepare for any contingency that might hurt sales.
• Every detail of every day has been thoroughly vetted, and there are contingencies in place in case of a problem.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2024
• And while road-trippers can't prepare for every contingency, a plan can help with problem solving and conflict management, Duffy says.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 25 Sep. 2021
• Hospitals around the state have been preparing contingency plans that included cutting back on elective surgeries.
  — CBS News, 25 Sep. 2021
• As part of its contingency plan that had been announced in advance, the state supplied drivers from a state Medicaid contractor that transported children with special needs.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• The investors do not pay the law firm, which takes the case on contingency, as the lawyers did in the Musk case.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024
• This was a contingency plan in case there was a problem with the guardians.
  — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• And like, the whole French contingency of our trip like, avoided the spice.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 July 2023
• That includes a contingency fund to support the project for the next three years.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• Enter the contingency plans and out-of-the-box strategies.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2021
• That is why all these contingency plans are having to be thought about and looked at.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 1 July 2020
• Does the network have any contingency plans in the unlikely event the games are scrapped?
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 3 June 2021
• With that in mind, Awsumb said the current goal is to think ahead to that contingency.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
• If that does happen, Sprague and his wife have a contingency plan in place.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2018
• By the time our first round of shots starts to lose its oomph, contingency plans will have long ago been set in motion.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 June 2021
• But that’s about as far as things have gone, in terms of contingency planning for this year’s 500.
  — Nathan Brown, Indianapolis Star, 9 May 2020
• There is no case for any contingency plans or cancelling the Games or moving the Games.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2020
• Webb said the project length is set for one year, with some contingency for weather.
  — Lynn Kutter, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
• Few in Kyiv are making the same last-minute contingency plans.
  — NBC News, 12 Feb. 2022
• Many contingency plans are being kicked around, and some have even floated the idea of starting the season in the spring.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2020
• To believe that your life is made of, or made out of, chances means not to think of contingency as something like a god.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• But four might not be enough to get through a game, so the Dolphins also have contingencies.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
• But the Pentagon has been planning for the worst-case contingencies if the talks failed.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• One contingency is to line up a third-party spokesman who can help if the brand’s image is dinged.
  — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2016
• Some firms put in place contingency measures the last time a no-deal exit loomed.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• So some clinics may make last-minute contingency plans for the end of the day, so doses aren’t wasted.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2021
• Monarchy seeks, above all, to put on a show of timelessness in which the ruler floats above contingency and change.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2022
• But clearly there was a contingency plan in place: cue cards.
  — Brenna Williams, CNN, 21 Dec. 2017
• Still, Campbell said the Lions have contingency plans in place in the event the outbreak spreads to him or his coaching staff.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2021
• Organizers, who had insisted that there was no backup plan for the Olympic events, finally allowed that there were contingencies in place if contamination levels remained high, including possibly cancelling the swimming portion of the triathlon.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024