Example Sentences

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After more than 100 visits to North Korea, Rowan Beard had come to expect long waits for a taxi under the Kim Jong Un regime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

In good shape and with fair hair, Franck told Julie he was an architect who had come to the UK from his native France three years earlier.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

She looked at me the way anyone should look at a man who had come to buy a table and somehow ended up revealing a past he was still trying to heal from.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Geren had come under the influence of some midgrade officers, notably Col.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

I stood frozen for a minute and I almost ran back just as fast as I had come, but the door unlatched and someone came out, hobbling bent over a stick.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff