How to Use happen along in a Sentence
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Did all that happen along with a big increase in the national debt?
—James Pethokoukis, TheWeek, 10 Oct. 2020
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According to the outlet, more than 90 percent of all earthquakes on the planet happen along this ring.
—Justin Klawans, The Week, 8 Mar. 2023
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This helps minimize the abrasion that causes fading as well as the wear that can happen along the hems, pockets, and fly and waistband edges.
—Carolyn Forte, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2021
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And a lot can happen along the way to derail such an outcome being a reality.
—Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
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Our lives happen along three spatial dimensions: depth, width and height.
—Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
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To keep pushing forward despite any negative thing that can happen along the way.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2022
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Samantha Hopkins of the University of Oregon points out that more digs happen along her state's paved roads than along dirt ones.
—Katie Peek, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2021
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Only a believer in a perfect creation could believe that errors do not happen along the way.
—George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2013
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For mountain glaciers, the meltwater has to do some traveling to reach the ocean, and interesting things may happen along that journey.
—Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2020
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Most interactions between humans and rattlesnakes in Utah happen along the Wasatch Front.
—Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2022
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Supershear earthquakes are more likely to happen along long, mature faults like the San Andreas, where many years of activity have ground away a lot of the twists and bumps that might slow down an earthquake’s energy.
—Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
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Elliott also said earthquakes commonly happen along this fault.
—Jocelyn Gecker, ajc, 9 July 2021
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Though efforts at accountability have improved dramatically in recent years, misreporting on dirty practices and even outright counterfeiting do still happen along the path from sourcing to sale.
—Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2020
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Competition doesn't naturally happen along axes of price and quality rather than bareknuckle cheating or sabotage.
—Ryan Cooper, The Week, 25 Oct. 2021
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