hap

Example Sentences

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Ngheu and chem chap hap sa, steamed clams and mussels, come in a buttery lemongrass broth.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2022

How then had a man so singularly drained of hap as the 57-year-old Israeli ended up controlling Chelsea, Portsmouth and West Ham United?

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2011

In Tallahassee, Fla., 16-year-old Harold Knowles, one of three Negroes to start classes at Leon High School, said: "I expected some friction, but nothing hap pened."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Black Prince is that rarest of novels, one which conveys the texture, the immediacy, the superb improbability of love as it hap pens.

From Time Magazine Archive

When one has such a dream and the predicted event hap pens, it’s hard not to believe in precognition.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos