Synonyms of happens

happens

verb

present tense third-person singular of happen

as in occurs

to take place

did anything exciting happen over the summer?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• occurs
• is
• comes
• does
• passes
• transpires
• befalls
• comes down
• goes on
• chances
• comes about
• materializes
• comes off
• cooks
• goes down
• proceeds
• comes to pass
• haps
• arises
• rises
• betides
• develops
• follows
• results
• breaks
• intervenes
• shapes (up)
• springs (up)
• crops (up)
• comes up
• turns out
• falls out
• goes off

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of happens

The real action happens outside of the courtroom—at the Cairo Club, or the bar at the Lafayette Hotel, or F&M Patio Bar—where the heat and the music and the drinks have a way of bringing Lemann back to herself. —Brandy Jensen, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026

Check-in happens in the room which makes everyone's life easier. —Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Apr. 2026

Arguably, not much happens onstage, in real-time. —Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Apr. 2026

Lane is a good-sized winger with some real puck skill, scoring touch, smarts, a level of physicality and competitiveness that puts him in the mix of everything that happens on the ice. —Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026

What happens then, when the Ohio data center turns on its nighttime lights? —Arik Levinson, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026

And serialization is a glorious, wonderful thing that happens automatically to a show that people love. —Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026

What happens in those hours can linger after Price leaves. —Derek James, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026

But, for now, some leaders remain worried about what happens next. —Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026