Example Sentences

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Twenty-five years into any new century, quite a bit will have happened.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

The thing that we have been trying to prevent this whole time will have happened.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2024

This little anticipatory poem has its way with time: it describes what Merwin imagines will have happened on March 15, 2019, but it is dedicated to, and reserved for, every March 15th thereafter.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 17, 2019

Downing Street has said that the vote will have happened by Monday 21 January, in just 38 days' time.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2018

And that nothing will have happened to us and our helpers long before that time?

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank