How to Use occur to in a Sentence

occur to

verb
  • That just hadn’t occurred to me.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Just 10 of these liftoffs have occurred to date.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • And what occurred to me again is your health is priceless.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • That idea had not occurred to me until my daughter brought it up.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2025
  • How far back had the idea that Yasmin might end up in this place occurred to you?
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Because the public has a right to know appeared not to have occurred to her.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026
  • You’re just distracted by other things and some things don’t occur to you.
    — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 14 Jan. 2026
  • You’re just distracted by other things and some things don’t occur to you.
    — David K. Li, NBC news, 27 Nov. 2025
  • That didn’t occur to me until Moreno opened his mouth at the start of spring training.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Baking on my own, though, with my trusty dad and his trusty bread maker thousands of miles away, never occurred to me.
    — Risa Polansky Shiman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
  • No change is occurring to the customer experience, eero said in a blog post.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Until last week, the idea of improving garlic bread never occurred to me.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2026
  • One problem that occurs to me might be if your son-in-law’s sister plans to bring the kids and live with her mother in the future.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
  • One problem that occurs to me might be if your son-in-law’s sister plans to bring the kids and live with her mother in the future.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Law enforcement is asking anyone with video of the damage occurring to share it with them.
    — Nick Lentz, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • On the upside, brilliant solutions or clever ideas might suddenly occur to you.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Steven was very generous in his consideration of the notions that occurred to me.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
  • This is what kept occurring to me while watching the two-time Oscar nominee crushing it on last night’s show.
    — Charu Sinha, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Dutcher says the right combination of water, sun, winds and temperatures has to occur to produce one.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Under the bill, rioting would not need to have actually occurred to be a conspiracy.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • This possibility had never occurred to her.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Inputting his pages of reflections and asking Shelley to highlight connections brought out ideas that hadn’t occurred to him on his own.
    — Sophie Hills, Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Unusual moneymaking ideas might occur to you.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Consider the time of year and day when damage occurs to further refine your identification.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 May 2026
  • And, other changes would likely need to occur to precipitate a large rate decline, according to Long.
    — Tim Maxwell, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • Additional testing occurred to verify whether there was any hazard or if the sensor was faulty, multiple sources said.
    — Steve Beynon, ABC News, 11 June 2026
  • Reading the report closely for the first time, questions emerged that hadn’t occurred to her in the immediate aftermath of her husband’s death.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2026
  • This is the part that never seems to occur to the political class until the moving vans are already headed down I-95.
    — Larry Clifton, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • As part of the ongoing CTP widening project, closures will occur to move equipment and material into the work zone.
    — Hedija Spahalic, Dallas Morning News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The possibility hadn't occurred to her until an acquaintance urged her to sign a form to designate someone to have temporary custody if she were deported.
    — Kate Wells, NPR, 5 Mar. 2026

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