come across

Example Sentences

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One by one, they scoured the city’s medical centers until they came across a medic who said they had seen the boy.

From The Wall Street Journal

For months now, she had been coming across dead creatures in the forest.

From Literature

"He was very keen not to come across as a whistleblower, or an activist photographer," he added.

From Barron's

She’s not well served by the pedestrian direction and dialogue, but comes across as a person playing a person, rather than as the person she’s playing.

From Los Angeles Times

We came across one of them – a polite boy speaking good English who we cannot identify.

From BBC