Sentence examples for just befallen from inspiring English sources

Barack Obama had the mot juste last Wednesday for what had just befallen him and his party: a "shellacking".

By Hendrik Hertzberg Barack Obama had the mot juste last Wednesday for what had just befallen him and his party: a "shellacking".

Outside, in the frigid night, taxi drivers consoled one another about the tragedy that had just befallen their colleagues.

The exchange of information was Gaddafi's way of avoiding the regime change that had just befallen Saddam Hussein.

So here, in no particular order, are my choices for the year that has just befallen us.

Imagine, asks the author, how the brother left behind must view this -- a great catastrophe has just befallen his companion.

Such misfortunes surely just befall the stout.

And the injuries did not just befall complementary players.

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.

Their leader, Nick Clegg, delivered what was, by any reckoning, a more reflective and keenly felt speech than he or any other leader had made in the course of the campaign, lamenting the "dark hour" that has befallen liberalism — just when its virtues are, in his view, most urgently required, both in Britain and beyond.

Though no one knows just what agonies have befallen the men on the Russian submarine Kursk, other seamen who have been trapped beneath the sea describe how quickly the air can turn toxic and serious physical and emotional deterioration can set in.