'appen
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Far more deserving of recrimination is the illiterate dialogue inflicted on characters like Wiggins, the footman, forced to declare: “Cor blimey, I knew this was goin’ to ’appen.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2017
Oh, les pauvres Am�ricains I Eef zis 'appen to us, we would do avrysing een our power to disobey, even smuggling.
From Time Magazine Archive
And with each Age certain new things 'appen.'
From The Promise of Air by Blackwood, Algernon
“I dunno, young sir, what you’d call superstitious, but I’ve seen some queer things in my time, and something was sure to ’appen arterwards.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon
Did I 'appen to gaw of a hevenin, to looök at ma hinion patch?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. by Various
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