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Example Sentences

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It didn’t occur to me to ask for free merch until after I’d finished the trail.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

That thought did, in fact, occur to Henry Ford.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

But she said that it did not occur to her that she was doing so because the batteries were in the toys.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

At no time did it occur to me that this was the precise behavior I had judged in the ’70s Iranian activists and ’90s Southern evangelicals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

It didn’t occur to me that others in my family also noticed I spent time with Granddaddy until Jim Bowie said, “How come you play with Granddaddy more than you play with me, Callie?”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly