happen

IPA: hˈæpʌn

(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.

Examples of "happen" in Sentences

What needs to happen is tort reform and portability.
The very last thing I want to happen is to not meet their expectations.
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.