HAPPEN in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for HAPPEN, such as:

1. But nothing did happen to you.
2. We watched to see what would happen next.
3. All his troubles seemed to happen together.
4. I was curious to know what would happen next.
5. Just when this will happen is anyone's guess.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAPPEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
happen
 v.  take place; come to pass; have the fortune
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was going to happen now, just as she had dreamed it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  "Mrs. Bonnell's children have the measles," said Mrs. Merriwether abruptly, showing plainly that she held Mrs. Bonnell personally responsible for permitting such a thing to happen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Nothing is worth what is happening to us now and what may happen, for if the Yankees whip us the future will be one of incredible horror.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  "I tremble to think what would happen," said Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Scarlett, I have nightmares when I think what might happen to her if I were killed and she had no one to turn to.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  Every day she had read the casualty lists, read them with her heart in her throat, knowing that the world would end if anything should happen to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  I cannot tell what will happen to me or what will happen to any of us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  I hope nothing happens to Nellie, for if something should happen to her, I could never go home and face Mrs. Tarleton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  For twenty-five wild, happy days, everyone had assured everyone else that this could not possibly happen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  She thought without surprise, looking down from her height, that her shoulders were strong enough to bear anything now, having borne the worst that could ever happen to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  Ah, well, that's been fifty years ago, as I said, and since that time I've never been afraid of anything or anybody because I'd known the worst that could happen to me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
14  They still think, in spite of everything, that nothing really dreadful can happen to any of them because they are who they are, O'Haras, Wilkeses, Hamiltons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  But nothing did happen to you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  He's the kind of man who makes things happen but lets others take the credit.
17  Conventional wisdom has it that riots only ever happen in cities.
18  Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
19  It is unrealistic to expect these changes to happen overnight.
20  We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of past experience.
21  She had an uneasy feeling that something terrible was going to happen.
22  It was generally supposed that it would not happen again.
23  Just when this will happen is anyone's guess.
24  It was a terrible thing to happen to someone so young.
25  It's not likely to happen but I wouldn't rule out the possibility.
26  Children will play wherever they happen to be.
27  Such things should not be allowed to happen in a civilized society.
28  We watched to see what would happen next.
29  I was curious to know what would happen next.
30  All his troubles seemed to happen together.