How to Use course of events in a Sentence

course of events

noun phrase

• What was the basic course of events that led to that moment?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• As the grind of the season takes hold and legs become heavy, energy from the home crowd will assume a greater role in shaping the course of events.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• No one wants to eat a lot, since there’s too much food in the normal course of events, but the difficulty is, there isn’t much to do apart from eat.
  — Nigella Lawson, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2023
• Long ago, a sense of resignation took root, that ordinary people have no control over or say in the course of events.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 17 May 2023
• The course of events in Europe could certainly help governments around the world learn by example.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 June 2023
• As forecasts change and individual questions are answered by the course of events, the view of the far-off future becomes a little bit clearer.
  — J. Peter Scoblic, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
• And at that point, the course of events would be determined not only by the intentions of the two great powers themselves but also by the responses of other countries in the region.
  — Andrew F. Krepinevich, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• There was just an old man — an unreliable narrator at best — telling his story one last time, in one last attempt to use his secrets to turn the course of events in his favor.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• Naturally, Comer is disappointed by this course of events, but less so for herself and more so for Nichols, who’d been doing months of press to support his sixth feature film and first film since 2016.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
• But still there is the sense that material conditions largely constrain moral choice and feeling and are quite inexorable in determining the course of events.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
• This course of events is so unusual, in the matter of nation building, that the historian David Armitage has suggested that the United States is something other than a nation-state.
  — Jill Lepore, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2019
• But Putin’s bold move and his military’s unexpected prowess quickly changed the course of events, demonstrating that the Middle East without Russia was actually a departure, not the norm.
  — Eugene B. Rumer, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2019
• But the current administration has shown little appetite to arrest the current course of events in the West Bank, where many fear the likelihood of an explosion of violence similar to the second intifada two decades ago.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• In legal contracts, there is a clause called force majeure, which removes liability from unforeseeable and unavoidable catastrophes that may interrupt the normal course of events.
  — Andrew Rosen, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• This course of events was, obviously, not borne out by history, and, over the coming decades, the computer maker Apple and the major tech-platform companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon were allowed to grow virtually without constraint.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024