A Philadelphia paper thus speaks of the sad occurrence:

He was wondering now how best to break this sad occurrence to Lucille.

Here is a very sad but sadly frequent occurrence:

Those two meetings, which took place within hours of each other, were the two saddest individual occurrences I remember.

"Today's sad occurrence was almost unpredictable in nature," he said.

"When did you say this-this sad occurrence took place?"

To dream of a cameo brooch, denotes some sad occurrence will soon claim your attention.

I remember not being greatly shocked by the sad occurrence itself, which followed a lengthy illness.

A sadder occurrence in recruiting is when a family member tries to "sell" an athlete.

This death has been a very sad occurrence.