Sentence examples for befalling me from inspiring English sources

It sometimes felt as if I were being singled out or that the disasters befalling me were punishment for being a bad person -- yes, I was raised Catholic!

Things have befallen me, and I haven't succumbed".

I will never stand over the ball without considering the disaster about to befall me.

"What woes have befallen me!" he says, repeating an expression his mother used.

Sometimes I think nothing harmful will befall me while we're together.

In the grand scheme of things, therefore, I acknowledge that no great injustice befell me.

Whatever befell me, my mother's shrill cry was always: It's your own goddam fault!

Soon after, the same disorder befell me — turns out it's a symptom of depression, called anhedonia.

Or when Roth said that after his first marriage he felt himself coming undone and so, "psychoanalysis befell me".

"I could not have acted otherwise," he declared late in life, "and I therefore accept all that has befallen me with love".

Veronica Gonzalez Pena is the author of twin time: or, how death befell me, which won the Premio Aztlán Literary Prize in 2007.