happen
IPA: hˈæpʌn
verb
- (intransitive) To occur or take place.
- (transitive, archaic) To happen to; to befall.
- (intransitive or impersonal, with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
- (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
- (informal) To become popular or trendy.
adverb
- (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
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Examples of "happen" in Sentences
- The events can happen simultaneously.
- But then the unthinkable event happened.
- The sinister event happened two days ago.
- What needs to happen is tort reform and portability.
- The actual probability of the event happening is unknown.
- The events of the series happen in the not so distant future.
- On the final weekend in November, the unthinkable event happened.
- The thousands in attendance at the live event saw the changes happen.
- The very last thing I want to happen is to not meet their expectations.
- The greater the likelihood of the event happening, the higher the price.
- 'The Crucible' showed the events that happened in the 1950s with communism.
- This event is yet to happen and will happen after the rapture of the church.
- What maybe needs to happen is to say that our next war is on our sad infrastructure.
- What needs to happen is to have consumers write and visit their lawmakers regularly.
- I cannot think of a more dangerous situation to be allowed to happen is to allow shooting at night!
- The only thing we will be sure to happen is to have a new president of the electoral commission, he said.
- We Americans show very little care about atrocities that happen *as they happen*, and even less once they are past.
- Sub-junctive_; which may or may not happen, hence introduced by an _if_, equal to _gif_, _give_, _grant_, _provided it so happen_.
- Oh, right – tell me that this country wants to revert back to the days of GWB – and the destruction of the constitution = what really needs to happen is to elminate republicans from any elective office – even congressmen/women who possibly aare really republicans in disguise.