preposition
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Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
verb
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To move from further away to nearer to.
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She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]
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To arrive.
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To appear, to manifest itself.
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The pain in his leg comes and goes.
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(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
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She came to think of that country as her home.
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(with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
example
Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?
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To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
example
Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn.
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To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
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He came after a few minutes.
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(with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
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One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.
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(with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
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He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
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(fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
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He was a dream come true.
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To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
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A new sports car doesn't come cheap.
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To carry through; to succeed in.
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You can't come any tricks here.
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Happen.
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This kind of accident comes when you are careless.
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(with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
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(of grain) To germinate.
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To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
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Don't come the innocent victim. We all know who's to blame here.
verb
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To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
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To ejaculate.
Examples of came in a Sentence
Many years before you came here this Land was united under one Ruler, as it is now, and the Ruler's name was always 'Oz,' which means in our language 'Great and Good'; or, if the Ruler happened to be a woman, her name was always 'Ozma.'
The princess came in.
Seven o'clock came and went without Alex.
He came very quietly and secretly, to escape the soldiers.
Morning came and still they sought.
It came from us.
Jonathan came in as Carmen was setting the table.
Then another shoe came off.
I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
One day word came that a savage wolf had been seen in the forest.
As the nation grew, so did what came to be called the American Dream.
When she came, everything about me breathed of love and joy and was full of meaning.
The nearest that I came to actual possession was when I bought the Hollowell place, and had begun to sort my seeds, and collected materials with which to make a wheelbarrow to carry it on or off with; but before the owner gave me a deed of it, his wife--every man has such a wife--changed her mind and wished to keep it, and he offered me ten dollars to release him.
I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of solitude, but once, and that was a few weeks after I came to the woods, when, for an hour, I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.
The smile came slowly, warming his eyes - touching them with humor.
The countess herself and her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing-room with the visitors who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in relays.
He glanced up and smiled when she came in, his gaze drifting from her to the door.
A few minutes later the nurse came in.
I came down with Felipa to get something to eat.
A strange odour came up from the earth.
Pierre reaching the house first went into Prince Andrew's study like one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was Caesar's Commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle.
In business transactions Alex was frugal with his money, but when it came to his family, he was generous.
The answer came swiftly - because she no longer thought of him as adopted.
She came to the airport with him.
Crash after crash echoed far above their heads, as the earth came together where it had split, and stones and chunks of clay rattled around them on every side.
When her attention came back to Alex, he was watching Jonathan.
I came in a charter helicopter.
Destiny got well and came home.
When Alex came home that evening, Carmen told him about it.
The twinkle came back into his eyes.
The morning after came without shame or embarrassment.
When Alex came home that night she had supper ready.
Just then the man with the star came and stood before the Wizard.
So he followed the Prince into the great domed hall, and Dorothy and Zeb came after them, while the throng of people trooped in also.
Do not all people grow upon bushes where you came from, on the outside of the earth?
Inside the hedge they came upon row after row of large and handsome plants with broad leaves gracefully curving until their points nearly reached the ground.
They did not bother to cross the bridges over the brooks, but when they came to a stream they stepped high and walked in the air to the other side.
Those colored suns are exactly in the same place they were when we came, and if there is no sunset there can be no night.
Just ahead of them were the gates of Hugson's Ranch, and Uncle Hugson now came out and stood with uplifted arms and wide open mouth, staring in amazement.
Soon he came to a wilder place.
War, poverty, misery, and nearly one hundred million people dead came from what essentially was a single wrong turn.
He came up behind her and took the coffee cup from her hands, sitting it on the table.
From there the horse dashed in and out of the poles and came to a stop on his haunches.
Jonathan came into the room, fully dressed.
A touch of humor came into his eyes.
He came back from a trip down there one time and was upset because he said Uncle Fabrice treated him like a dunce in front of customers.
I came back for my coat.
You came to kill her.
That I came here.
He came to see you.