The social revolution is to come about by passive resistance; that is, refusal of obedience.
Well, those days are over, and you say it's business that you've come about?
I've come about a little matter of business," began the rector in an apologetic tone, for in Cyrus's presence he was never without an uneasy feeling that the problems of the spirit were secondary to the problems of finance.
In the meantime he could not bring his broadside guns to bear on the Bellevite for he was unable to come about.
But at this moment the conversation was disturbed by the movement of the chase, which appeared to be again preparing to come about.
She does not appear to be able to come about, as no doubt she would if she could, so as to bring her broadside guns to bear upon us.
The order to come about on the headway that remained succeeded, and the three shells immediately exploded on the deck or in the hull of the enemy; but the extent of the damage could not be estimated.
But, when you hear what I am come about, I think you will not be displeased with me for coming.
I'm come about my lodger; a most respectable gentleman, which he have met with an accident.
I don't think we ought to force ourselves upstairs: we might as well tell all the servants what we'd come about.
But now, you know what I've come about, and there's no joke in it.
Thus did it come about that, a full month later, I was seated in my home, in a secret inner chamber that served me as a treasury, and to which the only access was through the women's quarters.
We are constrained to inquire, How all this can possibly have come about?
This wholesale importation suggests the inquiry,--How did it come about?
It can or will only examine how everything has come about, but whether this result has a higher value than another, or has a lower, or none at all, it can neither assert nor deny.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "come about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
