Sentence examples for befallen at from inspiring English sources

The representative told her it had vanished — the same fate that had befallen at least two of the other "Red River" buckles over the years.

The exact same fate might just as easily have befallen Sierra at home, but it didn't protect her from judgments and criticisms of her decision to travel.

Japanese films in the 1950s often dealt with the ravages of nuclear war; all those Godzilla flicks were expressions of Japanese horror at what had befallen their countrymen at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Similar fates have befallen glass blowing at UCLA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Genius could befall you at any moment.

Calamity could befall you at any moment in Calcutta.

Some of those dangers befell workers at the Department of Transportation's depot on the west side of the road.

Even with reduced numbers, Chelsea were able to press and probe, but with wariness of what might befall them at the other end.

She particularly did not want to go into hospital, aware as she was of the cascade of interventions that can befall people at the end of life, just as they can women in childbirth.

But the real concern here is not that the steady progress of the last two centuries will gradually swing into reverse, plunging us back to the conditions of the past; it's that the world we have created – the very engine of all that progress – is so complex, volatile and unpredictable that catastrophe might befall us at any moment.

Worse fates can befall executives at private companies that missed the new-issueswindow before the Nasdaq crashed.