How to Use happen in a Sentence

happen

verb

• Something like that was bound to happen sooner or later.
• What happened at school today?
• You never know what's going to happen when they get together.
• Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2024
• Northwestern is due for a loss, and Illinois is the perfect team to make that happen.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
• The deals happen Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
  — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
• If that happens, Lake Mead could be unable to deliver all that the downstream users expect.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2024
• Organizers had campaigned for a year and taken city officials to court to make the display happen.
  — Matt Surman Anushka Patil Juston Jones Julie Ho Julie Ho Julie Ho Monika Pronczuk Emile Ducke Andrea Kannapell The New York Times Monika Pronczuk Anushka Patil Farnaz Fassihi Andrea Kannapell Carlotta Gall Cassandra Vinograd Cassandra Vinograd Michael D. Shear Marc Santora Maya King Michael D. Shear Marc Santora Michael D. Shear Cassandra Vinograd Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi Farna, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• So when bad things happen to good characters, social scientists have found viewers’ emotions can be very real.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
• The balloon blunder may afford Washington more leverage if and when a visit does happen.
  — Lily Kuo, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
• What would actually happen if Putin hit Ukraine with tactical nukes?
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 24 Feb. 2023
• The standards would reduce sodium limits, but that would happen gradually over several school years.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• Years ago, Utah voters overturned a voucher law by putting the law on the ballot, but that can't happen this time around because the measure passed by such wide margins.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
• Climate change is increasing the odds that severe storms, like what Californians encountered, will happen more frequently.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2023
• The series is bisected into two simultaneous storylines which happen 18 years apart.
  — Jd Linville, Variety, 2 Feb. 2023
• And when that happened, that was when the scenes were the best.
  — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 17 May 2023
• The three cases are the first to happen at the same place.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
• The token launch could happen in the first half of 2023.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 21 Mar. 2023
• What happened the last time the Bucks played the Pacers?
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• In May, Christie said the fear this could happen again in 2024 would not keep him out of the race.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 6 June 2023
• Click here to catch up on what is happening on the far side of the world.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 July 2024
• That wouldn’t have happened in the past on an anti-oil bill.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 13 July 2024
• Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2024
• But what happens when both halves wear the proverbial trousers?
  — Grace McCloud, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
• When that happens, the key thing to do is to claim victory.
  — Ella Sherman, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• But something weird has happened in the decades since Moore stepped down as 007.
  — Alex Pappademas, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
• And there were a few more things that needed to happen in the background in setting up the next arc of the book.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
• Because then the same thing happens on the other end, then there’s no call.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2024
• However, creating such a network doesn’t happen without intentionality and effort.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024