Sentence examples for it befell from inspiring English sources
It befell a student orchestra – albeit an exemplary one – to realise the work for the first time in the UK, with Penderecki himself on the podium.
Although at that moment she was certain that she would never marry again, she did remember having been told by a friend that people who have been happily married are the soonest to remarry, and so it befell her.
I was far more interested in the defenestration of Masaryk in Prague than exhorting a bunch of blue-and-black dressed clods with the immortal words: "Come ON, Sutton!" So it befell a colleague watching the Sochi Olympics to inform me that "medal" – like other perfectly decent nouns – has been turned into a verb.
So when it befell my father, it hit with a vicious blend of shock, injustice, grief, and uncertainty.
It's extremely unfortunate, and I'm sorry as hell it befell him, as it did countless others who failed to profit from it as he has.
But immortal fame rarely meshes with the temperament of those it befalls.
My father knew something about the rapidity of decline: he had watched it befall not one but two cities.
In the tick population it befalls with possibility (1-p), where p is the possibility that a susceptible tick was born from an infected one.
Although Global Witness will continue to work with other NGOs in the Civil Society Coalition, it befalls the rest of us to do our part.
But for the Palestinians this would pre-emptively destroy the hope even of a symbolic statement by Israel acknowledging the "catastrophe" (nakba, in Arabic), as they term it, that befell them when Israel was created.
