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
  • Your wife may have ideas that would never have occurred to you on your own.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 22 July 2024
  • Between the lines: Postponements are fairly uncommon at the committee level, and often occur to give bill sponsors more time to provide details.
    — Esteban L. Hernandez, Axios, 24 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 bedroom can be a dangerous place, too: After all, that’s where grandpa might roll off the bed, and two-thirds of the traumas there occur to folks 65 or older.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
  • Some damage occurred to the interior of the building as well, Stewart said.
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 21 May 2024
  • Apart from taking money from the car, no other items were stolen and no damage occurred to the vehicle, Frazier added.
    — John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 28 June 2023
  • Sofia comes in, the idea of being repressed having never occurred to her, and rocks Celie’s perception of self so much so that Celie betrays her.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Moving on to the fight, detectives showed him surveillance footage of what occurred to jog his memory.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024

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