Words similar to happen

Example sentences for: happen

How can you use “happen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The striking thing about today's announcement is that changes in the Dow still make headlines, not because they happen so often (actually, they happen very rarely) but because the Dow is such an arbitrary collection of names to begin with.
I see no reason why that cannot happen in cyberspace as well.
How did this happen, and how can we avoid such tragedy again?
How does it happen?
For the hospital analyses, the strongest signal was a 1-d cluster at a single hospital in Queens on 11 January 2002, with ten diarrhea cases when only 2.3 were expected, which one would only expect to happen once every 3.9 y.