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
• 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
• The idea that this wasn’t worth doing never would have occurred to him.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Harbaugh quipped that such a measure did not occur to him.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
• 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
• How could such a thing occur to one of the most buzzy startups in Silicon Valley?
  — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
• 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
• How this did not occur to Conde is unfathomable and shows a tremendous lack of judgment.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
• Plants can be pruned or trimmed when disease occurs to prevent it from spreading.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2024
• Something occurs to me: A book on apologies — apologies in history (and non-apologies); the moral ins and outs — is a good idea.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 July 2023
• Every few minutes, the dog had a fit of shuddering, as if some ghastly thought had occurred to it.
  — Sigrid Nunez, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024
• You’ll be given suggestions and asked to write out the time and place the habit will occur to break it down into practical steps.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 14 Feb. 2024
• Klimek: That's not something that would've occurred to me, certainly.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
• One thing occurs to me, though, as an option for all the folks who like to keep a steady stream of famous actors on their screen: the picket line circuit.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
• And then the other thing that occurred to me watching the tapes was there’s something slightly different about this group.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
• An answer that’s just occurred to me is that things are so scary in America at the moment — and uncertain.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
• Still, enough mayhem occurred to force consequences to face in future movies.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
• It’s occurred to me from time to time that the experience of Hell would be like going around a world’s fair of national humor.
  — Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2023
• The storm spared Atlanta from its strongest winds, but the center of the storm made it within 100 miles of the city as a hurricane, with the most damage occurring to the east-southeast of the city.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 28 Sep. 2024
• But Budin wanted to see these lipids in action, and something occurred to him during a late session at the synchrotron.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2024
• Over time, family and friends started to believe something more sinister had occurred to Alissa — and alleged that someone close to her was to blame.
  — Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024