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Occurred is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Occurred in a sentence

Related words

Occurred | Occurring

Occurred meaning

  1. simple past and past participle of occur
  2. simple past and past participle of occurre (obsolete form of occur)

Using Occurred

  • The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of occur | simple past and past participle of occurre (obsolete form of occur)
  • In the example corpus, occurred often appears in combinations such as: that occurred, occurred on, occurred in.

Context around Occurred

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

incident 3× death 3× collision 2× convert 2× count 1× cases 1× exposure 1× deaths 1× four 1× brutality 1×

Often after:

last 3× together 2× externally 1× outside 1× retained 1× fourteen 1× greek 1× toward 1×

Sentence patterns with Occurred

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

one death occurred in a 2× a collision occurred on sarratt 1× about convert occurred during late 1× all 19 occurred in new 1× and ac occurred together in 1× and clashes occurred between foreign 1× date that occurred last year 1× day that occurred in 1932 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a representative for 1× a study of 1× although police brutality 1× apd is investigating 1× canada post said 1× his death occurred 1×

Common sentence endings:

and early may 1× asymptomatic at work 1× chester 1 county 1× governor wahida shahkar 1× in croxley green 1× in late winter 1×

Words around Occurred

Just before it in the word index:

occuring 11 occurence 6 occured 40 occurance 2 occur 4.540 occupying 491

Just after it in the word index:

occurrence 696 occurrences 268 occurrent 4 occurring 1.243 occurs 3.077 ocd 97

Similar in corpus frequency:

highly 8.987 apple 8.981 george 8.975 looked 8.972 table 8.967 approximately 8.964

Corpus analysis for Occurred

  • In this selection, "occurred" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, incident, death, collision, last, together and externally stand out and add context to how "occurred" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include one death occurred in a, a collision occurred on sarratt, incident occurred, occurred last and explosion occurred. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "occurred" sits close to words such as highly, apple and george, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with occurred

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Although police brutality occurred, the manner in which it occurred retained some civility. (13 words)

If the first accident had not occurred, then the second accident would not have occurred. (15 words)

APD is investigating a stabbing that occurred at the Holiday gas station on Muldoon and Duben that occurred on Sunday. (20 words)

Longer example sentences

Canada Post said it was told by AHS that the provincial health authority “does not believe these cases occurred in the workplace but rather that exposure occurred externally and all cases were unrelated,” adding that employees were asymptomatic at work. (40 words)

If such a moon-forming event had occurred there, a possible explanation of why the planet does not have such a moon might be that a second collision occurred that countered the angular momentum from the first impact. (38 words)

See, for example: citation Early techniques for chemically separating scandium, yttrium and lutetium relied on the fact that these elements occurred together in the so-called "yttrium group" whereas La and Ac occurred together in the "cerium group". (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

The incident occurred at around 6.15pm on Thursday, September 28, when a collision occurred on Sarratt Road in Croxley Green.

This is consistent with comments that we have made on previous calls regarding the growth in state highway budgets and the record level of new highway and bridge contracts awards that have occurred -- that occurred last year.

Two additional counts of sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree relate to sexual abuse against one of the victims that occurred in Wasilla in November 2019 and one misdemeanor count occurred while in custody.

A representative for the office of the New York governor later clarified that not all 19 occurred in New York but would not say how many occurred in the state versus in others.

Canada Post said it was told by AHS that the provincial health authority “does not believe these cases occurred in the workplace but rather that exposure occurred externally and all cases were unrelated,” adding that employees were asymptomatic at work.

One death occurred in a young adult from Horry (1), and one death occurred in a child from Chester (1) county.

Thirteen of the seventeen deaths occurred in the 24 hour reporting period between yesterday and today, with four occurred outside the last 24 hours.

Although police brutality occurred, the manner in which it occurred retained some civility.

Advertentie

His death occurred fourteen days after the signing of the surrender papers at Appamatox, but where it occurred is not certain.

The explosion occurred at 6am local time and clashes occurred between foreign troops and attackers close to Bagram airbase after the explosion, Tolo News reported quoting a spokesman for the provincial governor, Wahida Shahkar.

APD is investigating a stabbing that occurred at the Holiday gas station on Muldoon and Duben that occurred on Sunday.

If administrators truly want to curb racism in response to the racist incident that occurred last semester, they should focus their efforts where the incident occurred: Greek life.

If the first accident had not occurred, then the second accident would not have occurred.

The investigation determined that, because the incident occurred on the property of the owner of the two pit bulls, no criminal offense had occurred.

The top spot is held by a day that occurred in 1932 (Feb. 11) with the second spot held from a date that occurred last year (Feb. 24).

A study of hippopotamus reproductive behaviour in Uganda showed that peak conceptions occurred during the end of the wet season in the summer, and peak births occurred toward the beginning of the wet season in late winter.

If such a moon-forming event had occurred there, a possible explanation of why the planet does not have such a moon might be that a second collision occurred that countered the angular momentum from the first impact.

No significant historically recorded earthquakes have occurred in Houston, but researchers do not discount the possibility of such quakes having occurred in the deeper past, nor occurring in the future.

Peak flows of over convert occurred during late August and early September, and minimum flows of about convert occurred during late April and early May.

See, for example: citation Early techniques for chemically separating scandium, yttrium and lutetium relied on the fact that these elements occurred together in the so-called "yttrium group" whereas La and Ac occurred together in the "cerium group".

Advertentie

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Common combinations with occurred

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "occurred" in a sentence?
An example: "The incident occurred at around 6.15pm on Thursday, September 28, when a collision occurred on Sarratt Road in Croxley Green." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "occurred" from authentic English texts.
What does "occurred" mean?
Occurred means: simple past and past participle of occur
How many example sentences with "occurred" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "occurred", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.