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Example sentences for "would happen"

  • When he is king, what, think you, would happen to the husband of Salome, and what to her?

  • I am weary--but if I should let them fall, what, think you, would happen?

  • He told me if I spoke of him it would happen, and if I left it would happen--to father.

  • That, he warned me, would happen if I stayed away for more than an hour.

  • For the case of the siege of Keilah forms part of a possible world, which differs from ours only in all that is connected with this hypothesis, and the idea of this possible world represents that which would happen in this case.

  • Yet it seemed less strange to him to-day than it had ever done before, because he could see that the love that would happen if he was Ellen's lover would be a living thing in thirty years' time.

  • For she did not know what would happen to Richard if his mother died.

  • And through the sallow mist of her unavailing and repugnant pity there flashed suddenly the lightning of certainty that some day the thing would happen.

  • If, however, the strain be carried beyond this limit, the bar will not recover its original dimensions, but will be permanently pulled out or pushed in, just as would happen to a spring to which an undue strain had been applied.

  • Yet you couldn't help thinking that just this night it would happen.

  • You might have known--you might have known that something would happen.

  • And something, something that you didn't know, would happen.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would 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:
    must appear; would agree; would appear; would arrive; would call; would cause; would cease; would come; would continue; would drive; would haue; would have been better; would have been glad; would hear; would help; would hold; would lead; would make; would needs; would often; would see; would serve; would take too long; would talk; would that; would they