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Example sentences for "just happened"

  • I just happened to be looking up over the tops of that big clump of trees ahead when I saw a bird; and he told me there was water below," remarked William, calmly.

  • If we just happened to meet up with that gentleman while we knocked around old Rattlesnake Mountain, perhaps you'd be glad to get back that tin box again.

  • And I just happened to ask him about the weather, and that was the only conversation.

  • I just happened to think of a good name for it while you were talking.

  • Besides I just happened to know about parrots and water so it's no credit to me.

  • It was one of the dozens of things that he "just happened to know.

  • I've just happened to be there at the right moment.

  • He said that he just happened to ask at the right place is what he indicated to me; said "Maybe these other people hadn't hit at the right time or hadn't approached the right person.

  • He had very little self-identification, and at the time he hit me as somebody who was looking for identification, and he just happened, I guess, to latch on to this particular area to become identified with.

  • But it just happened to turn out that way, but she thought she was doing the right thing, and he would never talk to any strangers, or anything.

  • I just happened to think of it," he said, "it's an insulation.

  • We just happened to be there, because we rolled down the grade from Ridgeboro.

  • I said that because we have the Comedy of Errors in school and I just happened to think of it.

  • I just happened to notice it there on the map.

  • I just happened to notice that you both wear the decoration ribbon of the Distinguished Flying Cross.

  • I just happened to see the smoke first, and got first crack at it.

  • He was a permanent resident and he was one of these fellows who bounced from job to job every few days but he just happened to bounce in the same town all the time.

  • He just happened to return to the State in which he had earned his wage credits, so his claim reverted from an interstate claim to an intrastate only due to geographical location, not due to any monetary consideration.

  • The few times I did see him I just happened to be out there.

  • I remember that from sometime ago, but I just happened to see the checkout.

  • And after you'd just happened to remember this something, I s'pose you just happened to ask where I was and they told you Moccasin Spring.

  • I just happened to think that now Bull won't be able to tell me what he was going to to-night.

  • I hadn't just happened to strike for a night off this evenin' I dunno where you'd be!

  • I'll have supper with you, but don't pull any more of that 'I just happened to be going by the theatre.

  • I just happened to be going by the theatre and I stopped around and thought I might run into you.

  • No, I just happened to notice your picture in the Bulletin last Sunday.

  • When I heard the ring, I just happened--" "I understand.

  • I just happened to think of the same thing.

  • I just happened to remember; you said the letter might not be signed.

  • I was showin' him round the town and we just happened to look in.

  • Oh, I just happened to think of it as a sample experience--and the last of that particular brand.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "just happened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    commissioned officers; just after; just because; just been; just claim; just come; just exactly; just from; just going; just government; just happened; just idea; just kind; just know; just large; just now; just published; just said; just south; just step; just the; just this; just when; just where; nearly round; substantial form