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Meanings of come across in English
Find unexpectedly.
Synonyms
Examples for "strike"
Examples for "strike"
1
Alternatively; something said could strike the right note at the right time!
2
Public health doctors seem set to ballot for strike action over pay.
3
How much money has the South African economy lost through strike action?
4
The strike would continue until the government agreed to talks, he said.
5
The union said a strike would cost BA £40 million a day.
1
Receipt-tracking systems allow users to discover patterns that help avoid future conflict.
2
That means a new map with new points of interest to discover.
3
You'll also discover new response time guidelines based on the latest research.
4
Case created these different restorations, though, I have yet to fully discover.
5
With each deal you always meet new people and discover new things.
1
Dinosaurs mature rapidly; most species attain adulthood in four or five years.
2
That description, however, downplays productions which usually attain very high performance standards.
3
The andesite masses here in places attain a thickness of 2000 feet.
4
We had no money, no family, and little means to attain either.
5
Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to.
1
Phœbe was not there; nor did the sunshine fall upon the floor.
2
The Chickasaws and the Natchez will fall upon New Orleans and Rosalie.
3
They might be planning to fall upon the capital from another direction.
4
These he carefully allowed to fall upon the mud in a heap.
5
Again and again he heard the lash fall upon the naked back.
1
I was too alert to what new situation might come upon me.
2
For we expect friends to come upon us tonight, bearing happy tidings.
3
And sometimes they come upon farmers who refuse to change their methods.
4
Within a few minutes I come upon a trail of bread crumbs.
5
The young woman had to circle wide to come upon them downwind.
1
The note he found; but it threw little light upon the business.
2
The treaty throws light upon the clan-system still obtaining in seventh-century Arabia.
3
Up shot the sun showering golden beams of light upon the forest.
4
Jarvo lifted his face to the solitary summit light upon the mountain.
5
So he placed his light upon the table and began to write.
1
His eye fell by chance upon the blotch in Law's bloodstained tunic.
2
It is only that we feared you might chance upon Lannister scouts.
3
But presently he will chance upon some tome whose appeal is irresistible.
4
Then you must think you have a chance upon the waters.
5
They chance upon the names of her friends and hug again.
1
He did think, however, that they had an excellent chance on appeal.
2
You could choose to believe me, to take a chance on us.
3
No point in taking a chance on Zach guessing how I felt.
4
Redmond had another good chance on the right, Cech again saving well.
5
We were the ones that gave him his first chance on stage.
1
This isn't the sort of place you happen upon by chance.
2
We haven't found it yet, so somebody's going to happen upon the formula.
3
The adventurer with a pickaxe in Washoe may happen upon like good fortune.
4
Treecats seldom mate outside their own clans, although it does happen upon occasion.
5
Then-we happen upon you outside the hotel we chose by chance!
Usage of come across in English
1
Although you probably had the best motive I've come across so far.
2
I sometimes from time to time come across it, unintentionally of course.
3
Over the past few years Republicans have come across as particularly heartless.
4
There is a good amount of enemy that come across the border.
5
That said, you'll struggle to come across a better big-screen blockbuster experience.
6
It took four days to come across the border, travelling by night.
7
I come across as extremely sensitive and intellectual when seen reading this.
8
He also said I'd come across another pair, far away from him.
9
That capacity for self-realisation does, however, come across strongly through the performances.
10
Naclerio learned that he had come across as too formal and serious.
11
Eddins had never come across anyone who'd seen her on the stage.
12
He'd come across the tracks hours ago and had known them instantly.
13
In fact, this is one of the best picks I've come across.
14
To insist on the facts made us come across as cruelly negative.
15
Most of the young musicians I come across now are visually oriented.
16
This land of yours is as fine as any I've come across.
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Come across through the time
Come across across language varieties
South Africa
Common
Ireland
Common
Australia
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