happen

How to use happen in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for happen.

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Many more "bad things" happen in this space than in the block cipher space.

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Quick take

come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of happen gathered in one view.

verb

come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

verb

happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)

verb

chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for happen.

verb

come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

verb

happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)

verb

chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!"

verb

come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"

verb

come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

Example sentences

Many more "bad things" happen in this space than in the block cipher space.

Most of these disputes don't go public, and don't last this long, but they happen all the time.

If you can link to a case number, we can at least try to understand or explain what happened.

He's doing that all the time, of course, and people scramble like ants being pounded with a rubber mallet whenever it happens.

A glass of water can be worth more than the New York Times if Zuckerberg is lost in the desert and you happen to have water.

So, what happens when you get the runtime error and realize that bar is defined in another package you forgot to import.

I do not see a case where this happened, but if true would obviously be a critical bug.> 4. Replication just stops sometimes, without error.

How much scapegoating happens even today around immigrants and crime, jobs, culture, etc.?

I'm probably alone with this opinion, but it's extremely frustrating to see this stuff happen over and over again./end rant

The situation described at the tradeshow in this article has also happened to me, repeatedly and consistently.

Clearly a case like this would be incredibly serious, and if this did happen to you I hope you told us and if you did, we were able to understand and fix immediately.> 2.

In a lot of anti-Semitic literature, Jews were portrayed as ultra-sexual in the same "hide your daughters" way that can happen with African Americans today.