befall

Example Sentences

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Sanctions didn’t make life easier, he says, but they didn’t befall Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Despite efforts to retain much of its historic character, the 14-year project proved controversial with one architectural expert branding the demolition "the greatest architectural crime to befall London in the 20th Century".

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025

It was a tragic prophecy of what was to befall the couple's fifth child, Victoria.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2025

Thus, Kripke needed something “apocalyptic” to befall the characters.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024

One month before the disaster, a medicine man hunting deer in the canyon claimed to have received a vision of the catastrophe that would befall the dam.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith