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Example sentences for "come after"

  • She had asked him not to come after her; she thought he was sorry for what he had done.

  • Her instinct told her that although he had passed over her fault very lightly, so long as he knew nothing of the father of her child, he might not care to marry her if William continued to come after her.

  • If he continued to come after her he and Fred would be sure to meet.

  • It is just like him, low blackguard fellow that he is, to come after you, persecuting you.

  • If a gale from the east sets in, you both run north, and I come after you.

  • Yet I never expected to escape, with so many boats to come after me.

  • What will your Warship be for ating, come after?

  • The true Mason labors for the benefit of those who are to come after him, and for the advancement and improvement of his race.

  • Then said Paul, 'John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in Him who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus Christ.

  • And Jesus said to them: Come after me; and I will make you to become fishers of men.

  • Then Paul said: John baptized the people with the baptism of penance saying: That they should believe in him, who was to come after him, that is to say, in Jesus.

  • To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.

  • The same laws of heredity exist to-day, and they cannot be ignored without imperiling the health and the happiness of those who are to come after us.

  • What he does involves the interests of his wife, and of those who are to come after him.

  • Or, it may be, as the Scripture declares, that the wealth of the wicked is being laid up for the just, and the present wicked possessor may simply be holding this wealth in trust for the righteous descendants who are to come after him.

  • Others omit the harrowing, and say: "Come after me and harrow thee.

  • And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishermen of men.

  • And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishermen of men.

  • And he said to all, If any one wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

  • Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

  • Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.

  • She said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you.

  • He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.

  • To succeed means to come after in some regular series or succession; as, day succeeds to day, and night to night.

  • He took it meekly enough, with a barrel of pat excuses to come after.

  • Though you have often heard from my lips the story of my mother, I must for the sake of those who are to come after you, set it down here as briefly as I may.

  • Without so much as asking me to come after her, she reached the banquette, and I walked by her side through the streets, silent and troubled by her displeasure.

  • Billy saw the man raise the mop to come after him.

  • He still felt a little dazed but came to his senses in a hurry when he saw the man with the pail and mop raise the mop to come after him.

  • You're alone now and getting old, with no one to come after you.

  • Children to come after me--glad o' what I done?

  • You're my son--you've got to come after me.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "come after" 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:
    active member; being carried; better place; come aboard; come about; come across; come after; come among; come and; come around; come down; come nearer; come nigh; come now; come round; come thither; come till; come upon; comes down; comes forth; comes home; constructive imagination; dear chap; decide what; this war; what had once been