come across

Example Sentences

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On the show the sisters certainly come across as if they were.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Rosenior has come across as respectful and patient, and impressed in work with Chelsea's charitable foundation, according to multiple anecdotes from staff inside the club.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

We had come across something that felt entirely new and brought the evidence home from faraway Dale Mabry Highway to preserve in that scrapbook.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Hegseth’s rhetoric is so alarming that it sometimes eclipses how he also can come across like an eight-year-old boy inventing dialogue for the villain in his G.I.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

Thank goodness we don't meet many people like her in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl