How to Use occur to in a Sentence

occur to

phrasal verb

• That's one of the first things that would occur to you.
  — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• These are thoughts that could occur to you live in the moment of the show itself.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Did the thought ever occur to you to take the test for the regular show?
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2024
• The idea of running a cruise line occurred to Skjeldam back in 2012.
  — Time, 13 June 2023
• Oh, that had that aspect hasn’t occurred to me, but yeah.
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
• Join the points where the right angles occur to form a triangle, as seen on the right.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
• Your wife may have ideas that would never have occurred to you on your own.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 22 July 2024
• When this occurs to cells in the SCN, the brain has a hard time syncing to the time of day through the presence or absence of light.
  — Cathy Habas, SELF, 17 Jan. 2025
• The idea that this wasn’t worth doing never would have occurred to him.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• Yet the moral impact doesn’t seem to occur to our noble hero at all.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
• Late in that process, a thought occurred to the idol: Why not help his fans understand through his art?
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2023
• One idea that occurred to them was to start a paper filled with shipping news.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• This thought would never occur to a real fan of pro wrestling.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 6 July 2025
• These are the thoughts that occurred to me at the end of my recent teaching semester.
  — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2025
• Harbaugh quipped that such a measure did not occur to him.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
• Maybe there were things about them that had never occurred to you before.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 22 Oct. 2024
• What has just occurred to ending the war in Ukraine, like where is Prigozhin's interest?
  — CBS News, 25 June 2023
• As the name of the series suggests, all the action and drama featured in the show occurred to real-life bugs.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• One out of four people in this country has some kind of hack or breach occurring to them.
  — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Maybe that thought will occur to her tomorrow or the day after.
  — Variety, NBC News, 5 June 2023
• This occurred to me, floating on my back, off a cove in Mallorca.
  — Sophie Yun Mancini, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2024
• Linda's goal was to tweak the changes that had occurred to her facial features due to aging.
  — Michelle Lee, People.com, 7 May 2025
• How could such a thing occur to one of the most buzzy startups in Silicon Valley?
  — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
• On one visit years ago, a store owner posed an idea to Karen that had never occurred to her.
  — Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
• An act of God needs to occur to get an independent movie made.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
• The patient holds the device to their head before a headache occurs to prevent or decrease the prospects of getting a headache.
  — By Allison Horton, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The invasion of Ukraine led to big fears about a spike in food prices, which did occur to some extent but wasn’t as bad as some had feared.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
• On the upside, brilliant solutions or clever ideas might suddenly occur to you.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2026
• You’re just distracted by other things and some things don’t occur to you.
  — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 14 Jan. 2026
• One problem that occurs to me might be if your son-in-law’s sister plans to bring the kids and live with her mother in the future.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 31 Dec. 2025