befall
Example Sentences
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Better to know beforehand what I will pay and what I will get and avoid the disaster that befell my friends.
“Such a sad time for you,” he said with false sympathy, “but it seems that good fortune has befallen you in other ways.”
From Literature
She will be desperate to avoid the disaster that befell hot men's favourite Ilia Malinin, who suffered a nightmare last week, slumping to an eighth-place finish.
From Barron's
So short track is caught in the situation which befalls many Olympic sports in Britain - they need to perform at the Games to get more funding, but without the funding they struggle to achieve success.
From BBC
Carthage’s deeper tragedy lies in the subsequent erasure of its history, language and culture, not in its physical destruction, which befalls all empires.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
