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Example sentences for "came into"

  • He came into a room belonging to the princesses, in which we had a party to look at the illuminations, and there he stayed above an hour; cheerful, composed, and gracious!

  • During the dessert the Princess Elizabeth came into the T room.

  • Before you receive this, he will have left York wiser than he came into it by fifty guineas and more.

  • Afterwards, Rabbits, the butler, came into my mother's room downstairs, red with indignation and with tears in his eyes.

  • I saw it at the time unseeingly; afterwards it came into my mind as the centre of the whole broad panoramic effect of that afternoon.

  • It came into my head that it would be ripping good business to use horseradish to adulterate mustard.

  • I was quite confused to find myself thinking this, but it came into my head.

  • However, it has nothing to do with the present subject, excepting that Miss Summerson looked so like it at the moment that it came into my head.

  • He went his way a great pace, all armed, until he came into a country wherein was great grief being made, and the more part said that he was come that should destroy their Law, for that already had he won their strongest castle.

  • A few strides and he came into a square open space only lighted by the skies.

  • And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.

  • He went out of Jerusalem a persecutor, he came into Damascus a Christian.

  • After a while the beech-wood grew thinner, and at last gave out altogether, and he came into a space of rough broken ground with nought but a few scrubby oaks and thorn-bushes growing thereon here and there.

  • Each settlement in turn, as it came into prominence or provoked curiosity, found its geographer and annalist, and here and there sporadic pens essayed some practical topic.

  • It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the `gnostic' of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant.

  • I came into a sitting position, crawled away from the edge for a space on all fours, then staggered up and ran after him across the thundering, quivering sheet of metal.

  • But curiously enough it came into my mind, while I was rolling over and over in the mud before the wind, and very doubtful how the whole adventure was to end, as being absolutely the thing I ought to have done.

  • I came into a sitting position, and on every hand the blue backs of the Selenites were receding into the darkness.

  • How it came into my mind, I do not know, and what I said I do not remember, but I must have mentioned Falconer's name somehow.

  • We came into a very narrow, dirty street.

  • By the Mall we came into Whitehall, and so to Westminster Bridge.

  • I passed over the broken bridge, and through the massive gate, under an arched way, at the farthest end of which a lamp had just been lighted: then I came into a large open area, the court of the castle.

  • In 1889 Wellesley's Senior Annual, the Legenda, came into being.

  • In 1891, the Agora, the political society, came into existence.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "came into" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came about; came across; came again; came and; came away; came close; came forth; came forth from the; came forward; came here; came home; came near; came nigh; came over; came running; came the; came they; came thither; came together; camera obscura; chronicle history; great passion; great profit; rising bread; royal favour; white cotton