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Meanings of come upon in English
Find unexpectedly.
Usage of come upon in English
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.
6
In two days they began to come upon bones and cast-off apparel.
7
And then they come upon the simple rectangle that marks Jackson's burial.
8
Just a girl, a visitor come upon her unexpectedly might have thought.
9
Why had the thirst not come upon me until I was twenty?
10
When Dace's Exaltation had come upon him, he had been nearly fifty.
11
And now we come upon a strange little well in the desert.
12
With an unexpectedness that was startling they had come upon the grave.
13
After a long period of grave silence which had come upon them:
14
No sight so sad has come upon the earth in our days.
15
Even in their short absence a change had come upon the ball.
16
They began to come upon chains and packsaddles, singletrees, dead mules, wagons.
