Happening is an English word with synonyms like event. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Happening in a sentence
Related words
Happening meaning
present participle and gerund of happen
Synonyms of Happening
Using Happening
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of happen
- Useful related words include: on, occurrence, occurrent, natural event.
- In the example corpus, happening often appears in combinations such as: is happening, happening in, was happening.
Example sentences (20)
But if you see what's happening on private equity, what is happening with the big billionaires entering into telco sectors, the activities ongoing private with telcos, all of this.
I think you'll see lots of Deepgram happening as well that will create a bit more of a robust recreational market, but I don't see retail happening in that.
Jason Markusoff analyzes what's happening — and what isn't happening, but probably should be — in Calgary and sometimes farther afield.
Observing changes in repeat length provided more detail about what was happening, but not how it was happening.
That's not even an example of anything macro happening, but we are seeing things that are happening that are north of 10% sometimes on a competitive nature.
During the release of the third film (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor), several conversations were already happening that suggested another film was still happening.
Residents living along a famous tourist route in the Scottish Highlands have warned that the "same problems that are happening in the Canaries and the Balearic islands are happening here".
There’s lots more happening out there right now, so hopefully, this little eye-opener will encourage you to get out in the field and see what’s happening.
But what is actually happening, and has been happening for weeks, is that Sanders support has been rising while Warren’s has been waning.
I may know what’s happening at my company, and you might know what’s happening at yours, but what is our industry’s plan to develop a plan around this globe-changing crisis?
It’s good to see so many people have similar thought and feelings about what’s happening or not happening in Japan.
It’s hard to believe that it’s really a documentary and all that is happening is actually happening and not being acted.
Lucy found the form of the show: She came up with the idea of a hack — something that's not just happening to celebrities now, it's something that's happening to everyone.
Record a video diary of what’s happening to you, but also turn your phone or camera the other way round, and give us a sense of your immediate surroundings and what’s happening in them.
There’s a lot of good stuff happening here, and mostly it’s happening for free which is probably one of the biggest reasons why Zoom has picked up so much steam.
Too many Christians today, he said, “live without knowing what is happening in their own hearts” and “do not know how to examine” what is happening within them.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the declaration was "not because of what is happening in China, but because of what is happening in other countries".
And I also think it's great that it's happening now, because at a time when we're so politically conservative and horrible things are happening to roll back equality everyday, people were standing up and being more outrageous and more outraged.
As of today, whatever is happening in the country in terms of convention most are going to Kigali, Rwanda because they do have convention centers which is not happening here.
For example, when Occupy Wall Street was happening, you had a lot of shows happening after that were about capitalism.
Common combinations with happening
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is happening 56×
- happening in 43×
- was happening 27×
- what happening 17×
- happening at 17×
- are happening 14×
- what's happening 12×
- happening and 12×
- not happening 11×
- happening on 10×