happening

a happening of no great importance.

nightclubs for the young are the happening thing.

an unexpected happening

changes are happening too rapidly for comfort.

the full enormity of what was happening came home to Sara.

the odds against this ever happening are high.

rumours of prodigious happenings, such as monstrous births.

the significance of what was happening was clearer to me than to her.

He recounted all the happenings of the day.

There were some unusual happenings at school last week.

Hello! What's happening now?

He caught me up on what's happening at the front.

Accidents are happening with increasing frequency.

The developments in this town represent in microcosm what is happening in the country as a whole.

they feared that these happenings augured a neo-Nazi revival.

Rob stood in the hallway, from where he could observe the happenings on the street.

I try to keep in touch with what’s happening by reading the newspapers.

When did you first get wise to what was happening?

Her words brought home the enormity of what was happening.