come to a head
Example Sentences
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She had concerns that isolation during the Covid19 lockdown might have "come to a head" and that she had found Noah crying in his bedroom earlier that day.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
It’s come to a head lately as housebuilding in the U.K. has reached record lows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
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
Things began to come to a head with “Don’t Worry Baby,” Wilson’s thinly veiled rewrite of The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby,” which he considered to be pop’s finest moment.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025
In fact, that seemed to have been the entire business which had come to a head when the vigilance committee followed him to Mr Coldfield’s gate that day two months before.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
