come across
Example Sentences
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I feel like new grads are being coached to come across like they are playing it cool.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Mr. Margouleff, who reads quietly and naturally, does not come across as egotistic but rather as humble, even vulnerable, and able to laugh at himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Ms. O’Malley’s initially forthright Orla has come across as a career-driven professional whom Nell suspected of pushing Robin in directions he might not have wanted to go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The giant bowl holds in the atmosphere well, but you have to get in first and that is not helped by possibly the most inadequate signage I have ever come across at a World Cup.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The tide was nearly out, the channel little more than a stream, but he waited on the far side, gesturing for me to come across.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
