contingency

in a sentence

Anorak probably prepared for that contingency.†  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

He also tried to prepare for every contingency.†  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

They're doing their damnedest, but there's no contingency for rescuing sixty million people.†  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

It probably entered a contingency mode and started circling the lander, trying to communicate.†  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

The system might have a million contingencies for state wards trying to screw with things, but they don't have a plan of action for dealing with an accident.†  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

Commander, I would like to hear your contingency plan for evacuation.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

We practiced on our construction-paper football field, going over the various contingencies: What happened if a particular lineman (a shiny nickel) missed his block?†  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

Did our family talk about the future or make contingency plans in case the situation got worse?†  (source) Leon Leyson, The Boy on the Wooden Box, 2013

It's strange to remember how we used to think, as if everything were available to us, as if there were no contingencies, no boundaries; as if we were free to shape and reshape forever the ever-expanding perimeters of our lives.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

Like every footstep between the farmhouse and Wright-Patterson has to be mapped out, every contingency considered.†  (source) Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave, 2013

But the car had a swivelling floodlight mounted on top for such contingencies.†  (source) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

He said there had always been a contingency plan in case something of the sort occurred, but it was never taken seriously because the threat of an attack seemed ludicrous.†  (source) Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four, 2010

FORCE prided itself on preparing itself for all contingencies in the Web or the colonial regions, but nothing had properly prepared it for the Battle of South Bressia and its implications for the New Bushido.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989