How to Use occur to in a Sentence

occur to

phrasal verb
Definition of occur tonext
  • That's one of the first things that would occur to you.
    — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • These are thoughts that could occur to you live in the moment of the show itself.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Did the thought ever occur to you to take the test for the regular show?
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The idea of running a cruise line occurred to Skjeldam back in 2012.
    — Time, 13 June 2023
  • Join the points where the right angles occur to form a triangle, as seen on the right.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Your wife may have ideas that would never have occurred to you on your own.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 22 July 2024
  • The idea that this wasn’t worth doing never would have occurred to him.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Late in that process, a thought occurred to the idol: Why not help his fans understand through his art?
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Harbaugh quipped that such a measure did not occur to him.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
  • What has just occurred to ending the war in Ukraine, like where is Prigozhin's interest?
    — CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • As the name of the series suggests, all the action and drama featured in the show occurred to real-life bugs.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
  • One out of four people in this country has some kind of hack or breach occurring to them.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Maybe that thought will occur to her tomorrow or the day after.
    — Variety, NBC News, 5 June 2023
  • This occurred to me, floating on my back, off a cove in Mallorca.
    — Sophie Yun Mancini, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2024
  • How could such a thing occur to one of the most buzzy startups in Silicon Valley?
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The patient holds the device to their head before a headache occurs to prevent or decrease the prospects of getting a headache.
    — By Allison Horton, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The invasion of Ukraine led to big fears about a spike in food prices, which did occur to some extent but wasn’t as bad as some had feared.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
  • How this did not occur to Conde is unfathomable and shows a tremendous lack of judgment.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Plants can be pruned or trimmed when disease occurs to prevent it from spreading.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Something occurs to me: A book on apologies — apologies in history (and non-apologies); the moral ins and outs — is a good idea.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 July 2023
  • Every few minutes, the dog had a fit of shuddering, as if some ghastly thought had occurred to it.
    — Sigrid Nunez, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024
  • You’ll be given suggestions and asked to write out the time and place the habit will occur to break it down into practical steps.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Klimek: That's not something that would've occurred to me, certainly.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
  • One thing occurs to me, though, as an option for all the folks who like to keep a steady stream of famous actors on their screen: the picket line circuit.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
  • And then the other thing that occurred to me watching the tapes was there’s something slightly different about this group.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
  • An answer that’s just occurred to me is that things are so scary in America at the moment — and uncertain.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Still, enough mayhem occurred to force consequences to face in future movies.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
  • It’s occurred to me from time to time that the experience of Hell would be like going around a world’s fair of national humor.
    — Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The idea for the awards had occurred to her after years of hearing about Henchman clients’ elaborate back-garden creations.
    — Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The same occurred to former Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 presidential race.
    — Shawna Mizelle, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024

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