Wondering how to use Happened in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Happened in a sentence
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Happened meaning
simple past and past participle of happen
Using Happened
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of happen
- In the example corpus, happened often appears in combinations such as: what happened, happened in, happened to.
Context around Happened
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Happened
- In this selection, "happened" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, incident, awful, nothing, upon and last stand out and add context to how "happened" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include what s happened in terms, about what happened to the and incident happened. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "happened" sits close to words such as seems, relationship and wasn, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with happened
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And then obviously what happened, happened. (6 words)
Happened with Alex Wassabi, happened with Dillon Danis. (8 words)
The first happened upon me before I happened upon it. (10 words)
But they are not outrageous crimes against our Constitution in the way that what happened, to my mind, and, again, he has not been indicted, but, certainly, having read the story at the time, what happened in Georgia: that’s banana-republic territory. (43 words)
He brushed off the controversy over the events in his apartment as “an obvious attack on the church, including the clergy and believers” and said that the uproar would not have happened if “something similar had happened” to a person outside the clergy. (43 words)
There are a variety of choices put in the form of words, including answers to questions — why, what, where and who — that will have options as to what happened, why it happened, where it happened and who did it. (39 words)
But given what's happened in terms of build cost, given what's happened in terms of selling rates, what actually is a good plot cost to ASP in this environment? (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
There are a variety of choices put in the form of words, including answers to questions — why, what, where and who — that will have options as to what happened, why it happened, where it happened and who did it.
Accepting what happened in the past is simply a realization that something really awful happened to you, and that your life has changed because of it.
After the break, the said comedian continued the interview as if nothing happened and explained that a similar instance happened to him during a taping held the day before.
And then obviously what happened, happened.
As the incident happened “so quickly”, Mr Wood said it was difficult to see what happened and what each individual did.
But given what's happened in terms of build cost, given what's happened in terms of selling rates, what actually is a good plot cost to ASP in this environment?
But they are not outrageous crimes against our Constitution in the way that what happened, to my mind, and, again, he has not been indicted, but, certainly, having read the story at the time, what happened in Georgia: that’s banana-republic territory.
But this kind of Kabuki dance about dictionary definitions and micro-parsing of when this happened and when that happened is a very new model.
Had the government’s intervention happened just a few years earlier, the 2000s poker boom may never happen – or at least, not to the magnitude it happened.
Happened with Alex Wassabi, happened with Dillon Danis.
He asks about what happened to the Windmill Village, but Vash has no idea what happened to the place since he was last there.
He brushed off the controversy over the events in his apartment as “an obvious attack on the church, including the clergy and believers” and said that the uproar would not have happened if “something similar had happened” to a person outside the clergy.
He needed to process everything that happened, the shock that happened.
He said: “Everybody in Lagos saw what happened and knew what happened on the streets of Lagos.
In a victim impact statement the mother of 14-year-old victim Dea-John Reid, Joan Morris, claimed what happened was 'racially motivated and compared what happened to a scene out of the film Mississippi Burning'.
It happened after Vimy and happened just as the Passchendaele offensive was beginning.
Just over time, it happened after the war, it happened as the great American dream.
Narrating how it all happened, a relative of the pastor said: “The incident happened last month.
Since you can only observe what actually happened in Germany after the pause, you need a synthetic control to understand what would’ve happened in Germany if you hadn’t paused.
The first happened upon me before I happened upon it.
Phrases with happened
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with happened
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- what happened 80×
- happened in 47×
- happened to 40×
- it happened 29×
- happened and 21×
- has happened 20×
- happened on 15×
- have happened 13×
- that happened 11×
- this happened 10×