6 sentences with 'occurs'
Example sentences and phrases with the word occurs and other words derived from it.
• « The REM sleep stage occurs in three, four or more periods, the first of which breaks out no earlier than an hour and a half after the eyes are glued shut. »
• « Pellagra occurs mainly among poor peasants who subsist for long periods of time on maize diets, which are poor in niacin and tryptophan. »
• « In a small room such as a shower, a particular sound effect occurs: there are certain wavelengths that exactly match - technically, that fit exactly - the dimensions of the bathroom. When singing reaches one of these frequencies (the number of frequencies varies), the sound is amplified considerably, as if it bounces back instead of being lost, increasing in intensity several times. »
• « Tanatic shock: This occurs when the person learns of the eventuality of a near and inevitable death. They try to escape with futile activities. »
• « But the interesting phenomenon occurs not in the bat's ear, but in its brain. The brain processes and organises the echoic information so completely that the bat gets an ultrasonic representation of what is in front of it, apparently as imitative of reality as a human visual image. »
• « With the rediscovery of Mendel's work, the mechanisms by which evolution occurs were revealed: it is in genetic mutation that new traits arise, and genes that favour the survival of offspring tend to dominate those that harm them. »