Sentence examples similar to to befall someone from inspiring English sources

In a moving post on Facebook, Palin said the impact on Jones' ability to speak is "the cruellest thing that could befall someone to whom words, ideas, arguments, jokes and stories were once the stuff of life.

But perhaps the worst misfortune that can befall someone desperate to star in their very own tragedy is to be upstaged.

These three incidents, on the other hand, would be the equivalent of having unprotected sex with a promiscuous homosexual IV drug-user - the kind of thing, I guess, that might well befall someone who ends up in prison in Miami.

But the truth is that there are more than 115 million ER visits each year in this country, so a trip to the ER at some time is bound to befall you or someone you know.

This would be a terrible thing to befall any son of rich and famous parents, but all the more so somehow for someone who had spent his adolescence trying to remain invisible.

Instead, they'll wind up on someone's dinner table during this holiday season, a fate that is expected to befall about 245 million gobblers all told this year.

It is not a fate likely to befall Pan Hejun.

We cannot permit any more harm to befall them.

We wouldn't want the same fate to befall Jakwob.

"God spared him the tragedy to befall New York City.

It is but one of many setbacks to befall Cran.