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How to use befell in a sentence

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Asheville in fact became a leading cow town long before that distinction befell Dodge City or Abilene.
Who is in Liberia right now stopping this slaughter that befell that country after Charles Taylor's escape?
We're sorry these warnings were too late to prevent the tragedy that befell your family.
Despite the disgrace and humiliation which eventually befell him, he never wavered from his beliefs.
A similar fate nearly befell Mr Hunt who showed quick reactions to stick his ice axe into the ground and hung for several minutes.
The worst that befell me on my stag weekend, held in the sedate surrounds of a barge boat, was a hard-boiled egg eating competition.
A similar fate befell the Vulcan Senior with cotton seersucker, cotton sailcloth, and needlecord across the ribs.
Toward the end of high school, you had a political awakening when something tragic befell your family.
As befell many of its clients, UPI found costs rising faster than revenues in the 1970s, and the number of subscribers dropped sharply.
Soon after, the same disorder befell me — turns out it's a symptom of depression, called anhedonia.
Whatever you call it, strawberry blite should be 18 to 24 inches tall at maturity, and it's difficult to know what befell yours.
The whole episode sounds eerily similar to that which befell his Bully co-star, the late Brad Renfro.
The same fate befell others who similarly attempted to contribute to moral, political, and ethical debate beyond the fatuousness and anonymity of talk-back radio.
Their mutual redamancy would trump all challenges that befell them.
Nor is it as frightening as the one that befell Steve Fossett's boat when the mainsail got stuck in a building gale and the boat nearly pitchpoled.
What fate befell their progeny in the flood remains to be seen.
She says she regularly thinks of the tragic fate that befell many of those who have come before her.
You could barely be seen, like the fate that befell Brooks Wheelan back in September.
As everybody was giving thanks to God because the war in the Congo had calmed down, another misfortune befell the city of Oïcha.
I was aware of tragedies such as those that befell the stolen generations, and I sympathised broadly with Aboriginal land rights issues.
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Examples from Classical Literature
So it befell at last that he was recommended to a haole in Beritania Street.
It may be of interest to know what befell Pinzon after he left the mouth of the Amazon.
Well had it been said that Loki was at the bottom of all the misfortunes that ever befell in Asgard.
I cannot stop to tell you hardly any of the adventures that befell Theseus on the road to Athens.
And one night it befell that he was rewarded, for the raiders attempted an entrance.
Then there befell the household a series of coincidental labor problems that left them all at once without servants.
Some measure of the situation may be taken from what befell when the freedwoman Claudia Acte became the mistress of Nero.
But I had just witnessed what befell gramp from smiling, and was afraid to risk it.
The men in the vlei were knocked on the head with stones or knob-kerries, and a second disaster befell the Zulu army.
That this was what afterwards befell, we learn from the Old English poem Widsith.
And so ugly ill befell from that going to the river, and that knowing of the ring, wherefrom did all their talk arise.
But imprisonment for debt was not the only fate that befell the propertyless.
Remember when we starved in the pylon tower at Memphis, and what befell us there.
And now let us see what befell Little John while these things were happening.
I am in no way accountable for his actions or for anything that ever befell him.
It is perhaps worth while to tell what befell Anizy, and how pinon escaped.
He has undergone the same transmogrification that befell Vergil.
How hardly she had 'scaped that night the danger that befell.
Chaka said that he cared nothing what happened to those who came after him, or whether good or evil befell them.
And on a day it befell him that he was benighted in a hermitage.
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