6 sentences with 'happening'
Example sentences and phrases with the word happening and other words derived from it.
• « While Alexander the Great is a well-known figure in ancient history, the Hellenistic period as a whole is not. The reason for this relative neglect (in popular culture and in many history surveys, at least at the pre-university level) is that the Hellenistic period is overshadowed by what was happening simultaneously in the West: the rise of Rome. »
• « Likewise, there was no widespread awareness among most church officials that something out of the ordinary was happening with Luther; despite the radicalism of his position, most clergy assumed that Lutheranism was doomed to fade into obscurity in the end. »
• « Thus, the first great discoveries of the Scientific Revolution had to do with astronomy, as scholars began to make their own observations and advance theories to explain what they saw happening in the heavens. »
• « While Britain was happy with any political arrangement that would prevent a disruption like the Napoleonic Wars from happening again, the more conservative states were not: led by the Russian Tsar Alexander I, Russia, Austria, Prussia and France (the latter under its new Bourbon monarch Louis XVIII) united in a 'Holy Alliance' that promised to quell revolutions wherever they occurred. »
• « Lori looked at her husband, Bob, and saw fear in his eyes: something terrible was happening to their baby. »