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Example sentences for "should happen"

  • We may not want them, but, on the other hand, we may, and if we should happen to want them at all, we shall probably want them very badly.

  • If I should happen to get sick again, Tom, send for him without delay, will you?

  • And if I should happen to send for the cheapest tea you've got in stock, don't overlook the fact that there is an expensive kind.

  • If--if it should happen that I lived longer than the thousand would carry me, he'd see to it that I had more.

  • Adversely, if it should happen to be a good play, they don't know what it's all about and will have nothing to do with it.

  • If it should happen thee to give judgment in the cause of one who is thine enemy, turn thy thoughts away from thy injury and fix them on the justice of the case.

  • A man never argues well except when his purse is well filled; then his spirits are pitched in a high key, unless he should happen to be stupefied by some passion raging in his soul.

  • You must consider that if he should happen to hear that, on the very day he abandoned you, you went into the country alone with me, he would triumph, and would certainly say that he has only treated you as you deserved.

  • No, unless I should happen to be seen by someone knowing me.

  • I don't mean to say that Arthur would cut any body's throat, but I do say that if he should happen to get angry at any of us, we shall wish him safe in Kentucky, where he belongs.

  • The Ranchero had caught it up as he bounded through the window, thinking he might find use for it, in case he should happen to run against the visitor in the dark.

  • Prince should show no concern at all in his face, but sit down at a small distance, when he should happen to talk with any folks.

  • He gave a draught of sixty pistols to Donald MacLeod to be paid by Mr. John Hay of Restalrig, if he should happen to be so lucky as to meet with him upon the continent.

  • Will you blame me, monsieur," he said, "if I should happen to entertain suspicions against a government which authorizes and protects public insulters?

  • But as he was never in the habit of visiting me, I argued that it was very improbable that the thing should happen as he feared.

  • To exclude him therefore cometh this roaring Bull, that warned them also to give notice of her sickness or death, as soon as may be, when it should happen, to his Legate in Flanders.

  • Nevertheless, anyone may, without presumption, desire to do such like works if he should happen to be in that office, or to be worthy of doing them; so that the object of his desire is the good work and not the precedence in dignity.

  • For if he should happen to take up the child, she would pass out of my hands altogether, which might of course be a serious injury, as well as a very great hardship.

  • Please call my attention to it in the morning, if I should happen not to think of it.

  • And though my Stoical way of thinking may be no Rule for a wiser Man's Opinion, yet, if it should happen to be right, the Reader may make his Use of it.

  • If we should happen to find any one going that way who would chaperon us it would be all right, wouldn't it?

  • She is fond of the kiddies and if we should happen to take that trip to England, we would feel more comfortable about leaving mother here.

  • Wasn't it strange that it should happen to be he who came along at just the right moment?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "should happen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great historical; one instance; should always; should arrive; should attempt; should become; should believe; should cease; should come; should continue; should exist; should get; should hate; should heal; should know; should like very much; should move; should please; should pray; should probably; should rather; should reach; should really; should return; should seem; should still