Sentence examples for whether it could happen from inspiring English sources

But cases like Byrd's raise questions about whether "it" could happen again.

The day was dubbed Black Monday.Much discussion of the anniversary focuses on whether it could happen again.

The actor's death leaves middle-age Americans wondering how it could happen — and whether it could happen to them.

In Part I Edith as a child is fascinated with the French Revolution and whether it could happen in Bohemia.

With friends, they wondered darkly whether it could happen at their own school, and who might do it.

But the question, in the first hours, was less how we could be, as President Obama said in a statement, "confronting yet another mass shooting," or even whether it could happen in the capital — they happen everywhere, and frequently — than where this one fits in the taxonomy of gun violence.

"This will be a very proud moment," said Adaleza Michelena, principal of the advertising and media high school, who recalled that when the school was proposed in 2008 "we really didn't know whether or not it could happen".

We ate and drank and talked as we would have on any other night, except that the only topic of conversation was what had happened on the other side of the continent and whether anything like it could happen here, on this side.

Generally, accidents don't happen, but when they do, it doesn't matter whether you believed it could happen or not.

Sunday's performance, though, with the defense in shambles and the offense sputtering, cast doubt on whether it could still happen this season.

"It makes you wonder whether it could keep on happening unless a serious effort is made to look into where these spills are coming from and how they can be stopped.