come to a head
Example Sentences
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There are personality differences, disagreement with book choices, intrinsic ways of seeing the world that can occasionally come to a head in a book club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Events come to a head and the skillfully written climax is so distant and chilly that it speaks to a waning of interest in the figure of the philanderer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
"I don't know obviously these individual allegations but I think this was going to come to a head at some point anyway," he told BBC Newsnight.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
Eventually, though, this will all come to a head.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2025
Now the time had finally come to a head, when he was to be forced to face his doom.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
