How to Use happen in a Sentence
happen
verb- Something like that was bound to happen sooner or later.
- What happened at school today?
- You never know what's going to happen when they get together.
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And when that happened, that was when the scenes were the best.
—Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 17 May 2023
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The three cases are the first to happen at the same place.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
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The token launch could happen in the first half of 2023.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 21 Mar. 2023
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Strange things happen over the course of an 82-game grind.
—Chris Fedor, cleveland, 21 Jan. 2023
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What happened the last time the Bucks played the Pacers?
—Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
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Because of the loss, the first two goals wouldn’t happen.
—Cameron Teague Robinson, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Would the right player have to fall to them for that to happen?
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
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But what will happen is the fun of the final few weeks.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
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The worst that could happen, Harbaugh said, was that the Bills would go down the field and tie the game.
—Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022
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In May, Christie said the fear this could happen again in 2024 would not keep him out of the race.
—Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 6 June 2023
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Click here to catch up on what is happening on the far side of the world.
—Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 July 2024
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What many watchers of the war in Ukraine feared is about to happen.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
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When bad things happen, our guys are ready to step up to make a play.
—George Henry, ajc, 1 Nov. 2022
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When bad things happen, our guys are ready to step up and make a play.
—oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2022
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That wouldn’t have happened in the past on an anti-oil bill.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
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What happens after the cease-fire has been in place for 60 days?
—Abby Sewell and Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025
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Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.
—Griselda Flores, Billboard, 13 July 2024
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Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.
—Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2024
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Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.
—Griselda Flores, Billboard, 1 July 2023
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Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.
—Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2023
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Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.
—Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2024
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But what happens when both halves wear the proverbial trousers?
—Grace McCloud, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
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When that happens, the key thing to do is to claim victory.
—Ella Sherman, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
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But something weird has happened in the decades since Moore stepped down as 007.
—Alex Pappademas, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
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And there were a few more things that needed to happen in the background in setting up the next arc of the book.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
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What happened between Stephanie and Sean in between the films.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2025
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What happened after that was a kind of knitting together.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
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