come home to

Example Sentences

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And your little white lies will come home to roost.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

It’s also important to understand this effort in the broader context of the “forever war,” how it has come home to us and, more important, what can be done about it.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

This is a team of players who are simply not good enough without exception, and that lies with the board, so all in all, the chickens come home to roost.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

This is what we want in retirement, to launch on adventures that we expect will reward us with the unexpected—then come home to a fresh look at the familiar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

But then I remembered what Abuelita had revealed to us and I knew Papá had not come home to be reunited with us.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall