Examples of happenstance in a Sentence

Our meeting was pure happenstance. We met each other by happenstance. It was an agreeable happenstance that we met.

Recent Examples on the Web Khilwai, the village that fared well, was spared in part because of happenstance. — New York Times, 11 July 2021 Despite its homage to happenstance, a consistent design runs through this miscellany. — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 11 June 2021 Gamers use it in situations just like this, where one player is complaining about some unfair happenstance, while the solution to their losing is well within their control. — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 May 2021 In the early 1980s, a struggling female pop singer and veteran athlete meet by happenstance on a flight headed to New York from Puerto Rico. — Jon Wertheim, Vulture, 25 June 2021 Weeden’s election victory did not occur by happenstance, Weedensaid. — BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2021 Crafted by husband and wife team Brad Greatrix and Cherie Spriggs, who actually moved to Britain to work at the winery after discovering the sparkling wines by happenstance, the 2010 vintage is the first-ever rosé sparkling wine in the country. — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 12 June 2021 Others, like YouTube’s co-founder Steve Chen, by happenstance arrived just before the pandemic and rode it out here. — Leslie Nguyen-okwu, Quartz, 2 June 2021 The state is famous for its whales, seabirds, and brown bears, sure, but their existence always seemed pretty happenstance to me, and easy to take for granted. — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 13 May 2021

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