Occurring

Examples

• The figures are the number of typhoid deaths occurring yearly out of 100,000 inhabitants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The exceptions occurring among Brahmins or Mahometans or the ancient Persians, are of that sort which may be said to prove the rule. Plato. The Republic.
• The observation is suggested to me by what is now occurring. Plato. The Republic.
• This first serious railway accident, occurring at the very opening of the line, cast a gloom over the event. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This occurring many times in rapid succession is what causes the teeth to chatter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But why,' said the young man, 'why run the chance of that occurring which so nearly happened? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The blending of the individual taps, occurring at regular intervals, has produced a sustained musical tone. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Hipparchus made the first attempt to catalogue and map the stars with a view to checking any changes that might be occurring in the heavens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It occurring to him, perhaps, that if they had been Curates, their wishes might have tended in the opposite direction. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Its framers never dreamed of such a contingency occurring. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Evaporation is a slow process occurring at all times; it is hastened during the summer, because of the large amount of heat present in the atmosphere. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• About 1764 a little accident occurring in the home of James Hargreaves, an English weaver of Blackburn, suggested to that observant person an invention that was as important as that of Kay. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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