occur

In a sentence

Six example sentences with occur, each labelled with its topic.

• Aurorae occur most often near the poles, but a strong storm can push the glow as far south as Rome.

  Science

• Bank panics rarely occur in isolation; one failure in a small city can empty three deposit windows two states away.

  Economics

• The glitch will occur only if you save inside the elevator, which is why nobody found it for six years.

  Gaming

• Flash crashes occur when automated sellers all react to the same signal within the same fraction of a second.

  Finance

• Most injuries occur in the fourth quarter, when tired legs land badly and defenders stop jumping cleanly.

  Basketball

• Browning does not occur below about 140 degrees, which is why a crowded, steaming pan never yields a crust.

  Cooking

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains occur. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• processing
• consequently
• mental
• partial
• alternative
• approach
• minority
• registration
• evident
• security
• volunteer
• abandon