How to Use transpire in a Sentence

transpire

verb
  • A plant transpires more freely on a hot dry day.
  • No one will soon forget the historic events that transpired on that day.
  • Trees transpire water at a rapid rate.
  • What will transpire tonight in the first round of the draft for the Heat?
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 June 2024
  • But who knows what could transpire in the days and hours before the draft.
    Sporting Green Staff, SFChronicle.com, 14 Nov. 2020
  • If that does transpire, the storm could fill in quickly around it.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
  • Events may transpire in a way that leaves you a lot of free time while those around you are busy bees.
    Magi Helena, oregonlive, 7 July 2020
  • Still, the mania around all that’s transpired over the last handful of weeks makes sense.
    Wired, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The game comes with some intrigue that has nothing to do with what will transpire on the field.
    Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Even at 65-70%, could the kid have been any worse than what transpired Sunday?
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2024
  • With these guys, some of it is deserved with what has transpired.
    Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2020
  • This is true not just of what will transpire onscreen but off it as well.
    Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Sign up What was transpiring in terms of climate in the rest of the world this past summer?
    Win McCormack, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But even if that transpires, the MIB may take a different view.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Now, 2017 seems like the distant past given all that has transpired since.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The incident was the first to transpire live and was broadcast to a horrified city of Austin.
    James Moore, CNN, 25 May 2022
  • By morning, when the ski areas opened, most are not aware what has transpired the night before to get the runs ready.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • The events that transpired have left me feeling guilty, shocked and unsure of how to move forward.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • And more killings might transpire if the murderer needs to cover his tracks.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2022
  • But something transpired in the run-up to Oscar night that placed a wedge between them.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The best parts of those past rallies transpired as the ETF had broken above steep downtrend lines.
    Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The remainder transpired in the middle stall of the nineteenth-floor bathroom, not far from the hall of U Thant busts.
    Alejandro Varela, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • What's this going to be like, and how big of a thorn in my side is this guy going to be, and what's going to transpire here?
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The trailer highlights the chaos that transpired over the course of the final 90 minutes prior to the start of that first-ever episode.
    Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Families of the staff said they were shocked with the violence that had transpired.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • DeWine said the critics should just watch how the reopening transpires.
    cleveland, 17 Apr. 2020
  • This transpired in less than an hour, as narratives in Ghost Town Alive!
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The second number is nine, the months that transpired between that peaceful protest and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • In her own toast, Paltrow reflected on what had transpired over the past week.
    Nick Remsen, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Shortly after, Zarin and her boyfriend Gary — who had been busy paying the lunch check — walked down, too, without having any idea of what had just transpired.
    Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024

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