happen to

phrasal verb

happened to; happening to; happens to

: to affect or involve (someone or something) as the result of an event or action

An odd thing happened to me on my way to the office last week.

I wonder what/whatever happened to that guy after he lost his job.

especially : to affect (someone or something) in a bad or harmful way

I promise nothing will happen to you.

What happened to the car? There's a big scratch on the fender.

Examples of happen to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The two anchors of WWE’s main roster shows, Raw and SmackDown, just so happen to be stables: The Bloodline and The Judgment Day. —Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024

And that was the beginning of solving a problem for myself—that just so happened to solve problems for other people, too. —Byalice Barlow, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2024

Well, what if that dinner happens to be incredibly easy to make and only uses one pot for the most minimal cleanup ever? —Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2024

Scientists generally thought that birds of different species merely happened to fly near each other while migrating, without interacting much. —Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024