How to Use happen along in a Sentence
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Did all that happen along with a big increase in the national debt?
—James Pethokoukis, TheWeek, 10 Oct. 2020
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Pivots can happen along the way as your project changes, and that’s OK.
—Mary Shores, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
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What will happen along the interstates leading to the bridge?
—The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2023
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Your next walk through the trees in Atlanta can happen along the Beltline.
—Lesly Gregory, AJC.com, 2 Mar. 2026
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But one day the same will happen along the journey with sport and individuals.
—Tomás Hill López-Menchero, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
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To keep pushing forward despite any negative thing that can happen along the way.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2022
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And a lot can happen along the way to derail such an outcome being a reality.
—Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
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Learning how to communicate well takes time and effort, and mistakes are bound to happen along the way.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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Only a believer in a perfect creation could believe that errors do not happen along the way.
—George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2013
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Elliott also said earthquakes commonly happen along this fault.
—Jocelyn Gecker, ajc, 9 July 2021
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This helps minimize the abrasion that causes fading as well as the wear that can happen along the hems, pockets, and fly and waistband edges.
—Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 30 Nov. 2017
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According to the outlet, more than 90 percent of all earthquakes on the planet happen along this ring.
—Justin Klawans, The Week, 8 Mar. 2023
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For mountain glaciers, the meltwater has to do some traveling to reach the ocean, and interesting things may happen along that journey.
—Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2020
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Nothing ever materialized, but Howard said something needs to happen along those lines.
—Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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The world's most powerful earthquakes happen along subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides beneath the other.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
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Samantha Hopkins of the University of Oregon points out that more digs happen along her state's paved roads than along dirt ones.
—Katie Peek, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2021
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Most interactions between humans and rattlesnakes in Utah happen along the Wasatch Front.
—Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2022
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Once the balloons leave the parade start point, there’s nothing Messer can do to reinflate them should something happen along the route, Dinwiddie said.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Nov. 2025
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Unforeseen issues will happen along the way, which often does since retrogrades are times when unexpected circumstances happen.
—Lisa Stardust, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
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Many misunderstandings may happen along the way, especially as data travels across departments.
—Adi Polak, Forbes, 26 May 2022
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Competition doesn't naturally happen along axes of price and quality rather than bareknuckle cheating or sabotage.
—Ryan Cooper, The Week, 25 Oct. 2021
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With cancer or any other severe illness, the drugs a person’s been prescribed are working overtime to ultimately help them—despite the frustrating and painful side effects that can happen along the way.
—Julia Sullivan, SELF, 25 Mar. 2024
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For comparison, low-lying flooding doesn’t happen along the Boise River until water flow is at about 4,000 cfs.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 17 June 2025
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To change this, the researchers developed a risk management framework to help officials understand where and when salinization might happen along their waterways as climate change accelerates.
—Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025
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Supershear earthquakes are more likely to happen along long, mature faults like the San Andreas, where many years of activity have ground away a lot of the twists and bumps that might slow down an earthquake’s energy.
—Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
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Though efforts at accountability have improved dramatically in recent years, misreporting on dirty practices and even outright counterfeiting do still happen along the path from sourcing to sale.
—Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2020
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Those don’t come from a company or its operations, but happen along its supply chain — for example, in the production of the fabrics that make a retailer’s clothing — or that result when a consumer uses a product, such as gasoline.
—Suman Naishadham, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2024
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