How to Use occur in a Sentence

occur

verb
  • No one was ready for what was about to occur.
  • The disease tends to occur in children under the age of five.
  • There's a chance that a similar event will occur in the future.
  • The event is scheduled to occur at noon tomorrow.
  • The plant occurs naturally throughout South America.
  • But when have the last two bad events occurred?
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • When would this wealth tax occur?
    — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Good’s killing had occurred just six blocks from his home.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Who must be there for the change to occur, and who shouldn’t be there?
    — Laura Vanderkam, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Thirty-two car crash deaths occurred last year.
    — Kat Tran, Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • When that slow-moving wind grinds to a halt, a heat dome occurs.
    — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
  • Craft beer is not the first sphere to have a crisis occur on this plane.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2021
  • But, over the course of about a month, a shift began to occur.
    — Personal Finance, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Well, the thing that this tragedy shows us is that this can occur anywhere.
    — NBC News, 15 May 2022
  • The change that has occurred around them over the past 100 years.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • The posts occurred even before he was announced to be on the show.
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 18 Feb. 2025
  • And then while all this is going on something even worse occurs.
    — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This shift can take many forms and occur over a variety of time frames.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2020
  • The changes that lead to new variants tend to occur in the spike protein.
    — Theresa Tamkins, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But most of its actions occur out of public view.
    — Amber Gaudet updated February 20, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026
  • So, when the Earth blocks the sun, a lunar eclipse occurs.
    — Cooper Worth, Des Moines Register, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Shore break occurs when waves break directly on the beach.
    — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Shore break occurs when waves break directly on the beach.
    — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 2 June 2026
  • Shore break occurs when waves break directly on the beach.
    — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Shore break occurs when waves break directly on the beach.
    — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The exchange would occur in phases across the four days of the cease-fire.
    — Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs.
    — Bill Barrow, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Most of the heavy rain will likely occur tonight, though, Steve said.
    — Ayana Archie, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Next, storm survey teams drive to where the damage occurred.
    — Carol Kugler, IndyStar, 20 Feb. 2026

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