Words similar to happening

Example sentences for: happening

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

"An event with a one-in-a-million chance of happening to any American on any given day will, in fact, occur 260 times each day in this country," notes mathematician John Allen Paulos ( NYT ), who argues that the EgyptAir crash was almost certainly a random event.
But there was something incredibly interesting about being in the middle of it, and about the way your reactions to what was happening changed the longer the noise continued.
The second computer animated ant film of the season is said to be head and thorax above its predecessor, Antz . Aimed at a slightly younger audience, the film bristles with buggy life and packs in the "gee-whiz moments" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics' one gripe is that there's almost too much happening at once on-screen: It's "so dense with characters and illustrative detail that it nearly chokes on its own banquet" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Visit the Web site of Pixar, this film's animation studio.)
For example, such words as órale (what’s happening, or O.K.)
‘What we're seeing is a parallel to what has been happening throughout Europe, where the infection has basically moved using the commercial routes of the ornamental plant industry,’ Garbelotto says.