Example Sentences

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He felt sickly that a crisis had supervened with the suddenness of a tidal wave.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

Cadaveric rigidity had supervened, and he had long been beyond hope of human aid.

From The Seven Secrets by Le Queux, William

Besides, some kind of complication had supervened, something coming from the brain, from the nerves, something psychic.

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah

And teeming life, perchance, appearing once more in the fulness of time, when temperature in one or other of these bodies had fallen within certain limits, and other predisposing conditions had supervened.

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius

Then the King, who had supervened from nowhere, the magic production of chamberlains and comptrollers.

From The Pretty Lady by Bennett, Arnold