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Sentence examples for happened to meet from inspiring English sources

"happened to meet" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It implies that the meeting was coincidental or unexpected. Example: I was walking in the park when I happened to meet my childhood friend after years of not seeing each other. We were both surprised and happy to see each other.

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The New York Times - Sports

"I just happened to meet all these people," she says.

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The Guardian

I happened to meet, in Perth, a person who had worked at Hancock Prospecting.

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The New Yorker

At McSorley's recently I happened to meet a fellow reader, a schoolteacher from County Mayo.

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The New York Times - Books

In the early 1990s, Sutton happened to meet Edmond Safra in Jerusalem's King David Hotel.

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The New York Times - Magazine

I happened to meet Stephen Jones, who is a famous milliner.

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The New York Times

When he happened to meet Picasso at Madoura in 1963 he could barely contain his excitement.

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The Guardian - Arts

Because of Pontiac, then, he happened to meet his future wife, Angela, at an institute dance.

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The New York Times

A family friend, who happened to meet them on the deck, conveyed the news.

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The New Yorker

They just happened to meet our particular social needs at a particular time and then became embedded in our culture.

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The New York Times - Magazine

Jason's childhood friend Chad Channing happened to meet a guitarist and a bassist from Olympia looking for a drummer.

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