How to Use transpire in a Sentence
transpire
verb- A plant transpires more freely on a hot dry day.
- No one will soon forget the historic events that transpired on that day.
- Trees transpire water at a rapid rate.
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What will transpire tonight in the first round of the draft for the Heat?
— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 June 2024 -
But who knows what could transpire in the days and hours before the draft.
— Sporting Green Staff, SFChronicle.com, 14 Nov. 2020 -
If that does transpire, the storm could fill in quickly around it.
— Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 29 June 2022 -
Events may transpire in a way that leaves you a lot of free time while those around you are busy bees.
— Magi Helena, oregonlive, 7 July 2020 -
Still, the mania around all that’s transpired over the last handful of weeks makes sense.
— Wired, 17 Oct. 2019 -
The game comes with some intrigue that has nothing to do with what will transpire on the field.
— Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020 -
The challenge, of course, is to deal with what transpired in the kind of layman's terms that won't cause eyes to glaze over.
— Brian Lowry, CNN, 23 July 2019 -
Even at 65-70%, could the kid have been any worse than what transpired Sunday?
— Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2024 -
With these guys, some of it is deserved with what has transpired.
— Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2020 -
This is true not just of what will transpire onscreen but off it as well.
— Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2021 -
Sign up What was transpiring in terms of climate in the rest of the world this past summer?
— Win McCormack, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Today marks the one year anniversary of that day, and a lot has transpired since the tragedy.
— Alison Caporimo, Seventeen, 14 Feb. 2019 -
As night fell, the sights were a grim reminder of what had transpired hours before.
— oregonlive.com, 29 July 2019 -
But even if that transpires, the MIB may take a different view.
— Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Aug. 2023 -
Now, 2017 seems like the distant past given all that has transpired since.
— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023 -
The incident was the first to transpire live and was broadcast to a horrified city of Austin.
— James Moore, CNN, 25 May 2022 -
By morning, when the ski areas opened, most are not aware what has transpired the night before to get the runs ready.
— Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2020 -
The events that transpired have left me feeling guilty, shocked and unsure of how to move forward.
— Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024 -
Given all that had transpired since then, those five years might have felt like 25.
— David Gambacorta, Longreads, 25 June 2019 -
And more killings might transpire if the murderer needs to cover his tracks.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2022 -
But something transpired in the run-up to Oscar night that placed a wedge between them.
— Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023 -
The best parts of those past rallies transpired as the ETF had broken above steep downtrend lines.
— Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2024 -
The remainder transpired in the middle stall of the nineteenth-floor bathroom, not far from the hall of U Thant busts.
— Alejandro Varela, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019 -
What's this going to be like, and how big of a thorn in my side is this guy going to be, and what's going to transpire here?
— Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2022 -
The trailer highlights the chaos that transpired over the course of the final 90 minutes prior to the start of that first-ever episode.
— Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024 -
And that appears to have been precisely what transpired this evening.
— Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2024 -
That’s going to happen no matter what transpires on Sunday.
— Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
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