Sample Sentences for
transpire
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(editor-reviewed)

transpire as in:  a lot transpired during

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We do not yet know what will transpire at tomorrow's meeting.
transpire = happen
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    We're not sure what will transpire at tomorrow's board meeting, but we've prepared for several possible outcomes.
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    I say "probably" because of what transpired four days after Norton's summit assault.  (source)
    transpired = happened
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    And in the wretched state of his own finances, there was a very powerful motive for secrecy, in addition to his fear of discovery by Lydia's relations, for it had just transpired that he had left gaming debts behind him to a very considerable amount.  (source)
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    Were you ever in the habit of writing in the evening what had transpired in the morning?  (source)
    transpired = happened
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    Tonight, these men sat in the shadows, as if they were somehow ashamed of what was about to transpire.  (source)
    transpire = happen
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    Trapped and scared, and not exactly sure what was transpiring.†  (source)
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    or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent?†  (source)
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    It's called transpiration.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    A panel of terrorism experts was analyzing what had just transpired.†  (source)
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    The president has no illusions over what is about to transpire.†  (source)
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    "Beautiful words," and the phrase transpiring up through the crust of pain humbled him.†  (source)
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    I will say nothing to the Clave or Council of anything that transpires tonight.†  (source)
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    Several thousand men had grouped around small fires: now and then sharp gusts of wind sprayed water on them, but the wind was cold and dry enough to take the water up in almost instantaneous transpiration.†  (source)
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transpire as in:  it soon transpired that

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It later transpired that the CEO had been planning her resignation for months.
transpired = became known
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    During the investigation, it transpired that several employees had witnessed the incident but hadn't reported it.
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    The Delacours, it soon transpired, were helpful, pleasant guests.  (source)
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    It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand.  (source)
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    But it transpired that this was a request which Joe had just been going to make of Tom, and had come to hunt him up for that purpose.  (source)
    transpired = became known
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    So that, through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks.  (source)
    transpire = become known
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    Do you not know that all Paris knew it yesterday, and the day before it had already transpired on the Bourse, and M. Danglars (I do not know by what means that man contrives to obtain intelligence as soon as we do) made a million!  (source)
    transpired = became known
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    Nevertheless, so potent an influence did this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so, were they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret among themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod's main-mast.  (source)
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