befall

Example Sentences

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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 The Wall Street Journal

The issue also befell the German team who won bronze in the biathlon.

From BBC

What befell her, then, she brought on herself.

From Salon