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Example sentences for: befalling

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Only you know whether a potential life-altering misfortune befalling him will make you feel pleased or remorseful.
1.126), it would appear that Duke Orsino was not fully aware of what was befalling him when he admitted to Olivia that “I partly know the instrument that screws me.”
War, earthquake, radiation leaks--in an age of swift transportation, one encounters death in many forms befalling people of many faiths.
Milosevic, by "his bestial behavior," had courted the disaster now befalling his country, the paper said, but it added: "The world is full of beasts.