come by

Example Sentences

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Bankruptcy is a real possibility, he said, if a refund doesn’t come by July for the $175,000 in extra tariffs he paid on imported stock for his Tampa-based luxury online retailer over the past year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

It came at a cost as homegrown talents in the generations that followed found opportunities in the top flight increasingly hard to come by.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Land, skilled construction crews, and power are becoming harder to come by.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Outside of Summers’ voluntary resignations, consequences for American politicians who appear in the Epstein files have been hard to come by.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

Never know when another big fish might decide to come by.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick