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.
• What might an ethics of contingency look like?
  — Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
• This was a contingency plan in case there was a problem with the guardians.
  — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• That is why all these contingency plans are having to be thought about and looked at.
  — Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 1 July 2020
• Webb said the project length is set for one year, with some contingency for weather.
  — Lynn Kutter, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
• Up north in the fire area, a contingency line had been put in, Truett said.
  — Julie Mendes, AZCentral.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• His deal with the Haussers had planned for contingencies.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Dec. 2025
• And the lawyer says, ‘Oh, no, there’s no contingency for it.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 20 May 2026
• While the chance of an impact is low, contingencies will need to be put in place in the event those chances rise.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
• Most lawyers in these kinds of cases take them on a contingency basis.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2024
• Some firms put in place contingency measures the last time a no-deal exit loomed.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• That includes a contingency fund to support the project for the next three years.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• 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
• There are already signs the app is prepared for such a contingency.
  — Josh Axelrod, WIRED, 4 Sep. 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
• Few in Kyiv are making the same last-minute contingency plans.
  — NBC News, 12 Feb. 2022
• And like, the whole French contingency of our trip like, avoided the spice.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 July 2023
• Two weeks before close, the buyer threw in a new contingency.
  — Joyce Marter, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• Her boat is stocked for every contingency.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
• Always have a contingency plan waiting in the wings in case someone lets you down.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2019
• To believe that your life is made of, or made out of, chances means not to think of contingency as something like a god.
  — Adam Phillips, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• But the best front offices — and coaching staffs — build contingency plans.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2018
• The unit is tasked with responding to contingencies and crises.
  — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
• Does the network have any contingency plans in the unlikely event the games are scrapped?
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 3 June 2021
• Brands that come out on top won’t be the ones relying on contingency planning.
  — Michael Della Penna, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• 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
• With that in mind, Awsumb said the current goal is to think ahead to that contingency.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
• But four might not be enough to get through a game, so the Dolphins also have contingencies.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
• In response, Williams said there are contingencies in place.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2025