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Lexicographically close words:
combustibility; combustible; combustibles; combustion; combustions; comeback; comed; comedia; comedian; comedians
  1. You white woman come and make his squaw live.

  2. Then the parents bade the daughter to come with them, happen what might.

  3. Now, as civilization has come nearer, and sunlight has penetrated it, the grey moss hangs less heavily from the close branches, leafless even in summer, while the water dashes up over the rocks on the other side of the narrow path.

  4. Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry, If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound, Before thy most assured overthrow.

  5. Thus come the English with full power upon us; And more than carefully it us concerns[16] To answer royally in our defences.

  6. This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come to me and say, after to-morrow.

  7. Heaven’s will and pleasure, captain, I peseech you now, come apace to the king: there is more goot toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.

  8. All offences, my liege, come from the heart: never came any from mine, that might offend your majesty.

  9. Earl of March should have tasted of the same cup that he had drunk, and what should have come to his own children he merely doubted, &c.

  10. Despatch us with all speed, lest that our king Come here himself to question our delay; For he is footed in this land already.

  11. Let one of you come with me, and he will see with his eyes what he does not believe with his ears.

  12. Come, senor governor, get up, and come and enjoy the victory, and divide the spoils that have been won from the foe by the might of that invincible arm.

  13. And as for the acorns, senor, I'll send her ladyship a peck and such big ones that one might come to see them as a show and a wonder.

  14. But by my faith if you had not come up I'd have made him disgorge his winnings, and he'd have learned what the range of the steel-yard was.

  15. When we come to deal, however, with such substances as iron and steel, the benefit of machinery becomes incalculable.

  16. At Aden, two sorters come on board and spend their days in some postal cabins sorting the mails for the different parts of India, &c.

  17. This is well borne out by all who have come in contact with him.

  18. It is, however, when we come to the Gun Factory that the special interest of the Arsenal begins.

  19. Germany has become a formidable competitor to Great Britain in the iron and steel trade, and German steel rails, girders, and wire come in freely to this country.

  20. The Blackfaced is the familiar form we see in the Highlands, supposed to have come originally 'from abroad,' but now regarded as the native sheep of Scotland.

  21. On the south-eastern face of the ness we are at our journey's end, and the railway also, so far as the general public is concerned, has come to a full stop.

  22. The brother succeeded in making terms with one William Thomas, staymaker, in Cheapside, London, and he sent for Elias to come over.

  23. The Shetland sheep are supposed to have come from Denmark, but have also been crossed with English and Scotch varieties.

  24. And now we come to a very curious thing in the Romance of Cotton.

  25. The pair-horse vans which convey the London bags for provincial towns come dashing into the station in rapid succession, and as there are only fifteen minutes before the train starts, no time is to be lost.

  26. All right, we'll find somebody that will come up," retorted Jeffries.

  27. If you will do as I ask, no harm will come to any one.

  28. De Spain telephoned to him to come up on the early stage, and turned his attention toward getting information from Music Mountain without violating Nan's injunction not to frustrate her most delicate effort with her uncle.

  29. Could you make it convenient to come down-town somewhere, say to Tenison's, any time this evening?

  30. What had most shaken her convictions--and it would come back to her in spite of everything she could do to keep it out of her mind--was the recollection of the murder of his father, the tragic death of his mother.

  31. Night could hardly come fast enough, after the next long day.

  32. Jeffries resumed his mildest tone: "Tell him to come in a minute, John.

  33. The horse, unrestrained by its rider, had come almost completely about and headed again for Music Mountain.

  34. In a lifetime of years there can come to the greater part of us but a few days, a few hours, sometimes no more than a single moment, to show of what stuff we are really made.

  35. Fine form," he said coldly, "to come unarmed on an errand of mercy to a desperado.

  36. Chief among them is that of Laddie, the older brother whom Little Sister adores, and the Princess, an English girl who has come to live in the neighborhood and about whose family there hangs a mystery.

  37. Yroquet, an Indian known in those countries, who had come there with twenty of his men hunting for beaver, and who took fully five hundred, would never give us any mark to know the mouth of the river.

  38. The prize would not come until commencement.

  39. Say, Deacon, old man, come over to my room, I want to talk to you.

  40. He went on, in a queer tone: "Yes, I thought you'd come around to my way of thinking.

  41. You see if they had all come in together it would have aroused the landlady's suspicions.

  42. Matthew Goldie had approached, come even with the group and passed by, oblivious of its existence, apparently.

  43. Then he commanded, "Go get it, Freshman, and come on.

  44. Come on, Freshmen, that blank wall across the street is a good place to begin.

  45. Young was grabbing tight hold of the Freshman in front of him and wondering what would come next.

  46. Young hesitated a moment "I guess I'll come in," he said finally.

  47. None the less it was a daring deed, and Lee and Stevens had come within a small margin of getting caught by stealthy Matt Goldie, the chief proctor.

  48. When I am very old and weary I will come and die there,' he thought, with a touch of that melancholy which all his irony and cynicism could not dispel from his natural temper.

  49. She had come there only to see her friend, the Queen of Natalia.

  50. The storm continues, the passes are torrents; I fear much that it will even be impossible for your servant to come from S.

  51. Our lady is a true daughter of the Holy Church,' he said; 'all the lands and all the wealth she has will come to the Church.

  52. Come and take your coffee in my own room, the blue-room,' she said to him, and she rose and took his arm.

  53. They come here at sunrise; bring their bread and meat, and milk is given them; they disperse according to season, a little before sunset.

  54. Then after a pause she added: 'Dear aunt, come with me.

  55. After Count Victor's death she had resigned her office on plea of age and delicacy of health, and had come to take up her residence at Hohenszalras with her dead niece's children.

  56. Where could that stranger have come from, Otto?

  57. Then he said to his daughter: "You come and hold the candle.

  58. Come in, Mr. O'Breer," said the old woman.

  59. I didn't come back so well off as I expected.

  60. One or two wanted to go back and "stoush" that landlord, and the driver stopped the coach cheerfully at their request; but they said they'd come across him again and allowed themselves to be persuaded out of it.

  61. Come along," said Mitchell, leading the way to the front of the tent.

  62. There useter be a old black gin come pottering round sometimes, but I ain't seen her lately.

  63. But they reckoned that he had been too drunk to hear anything except an invitation to come and have another drink; and so it passed.

  64. Mitchell said this was a great mistake--I should have gone over steerage with nothing but the clothes I stood upright in, and come back saloon with a pile.

  65. I knew they'd come for you," said Mrs. Mears to Johnny.

  66. The publican's wife is sick," somebody said, "and he wants us to come quietly.

  67. She'd say that I mightn't come back some day, and then she'd never forgive herself nor the family for not seeing me off.

  68. Now we've grafted like bullocks, in heat and wet, for six months, and made a hundred and fifty, and come down to have a bit of a holiday before going back to bullock for another six months or a year.

  69. It's too early to come away from such a nice party.

  70. Green veils come into general use this summer, to keep off glare from white stone houses and other buildings in West-End of London.

  71. If I ever do come back, the greatest miracle of all will have to happen.

  72. So leave the letter in the box, and come home with me.

  73. It was necessary that she should marry young, and she submitted to necessity by accepting the proposal of a man some ten years her senior, who had already come to be favourably spoken off for the success of his commercial ventures.

  74. Come under my wing, my little scared song-bird.

  75. Others there are again, that we never come in contact with before they have proceeded to their later one.

  76. To these four a fifth may be added; but; as that is one already illustrated by the researches of Henderson, Cotheal and others, it does not come under the category of new material.

  77. Due east of the Wihinast come the Bonak Indians, currently believed to be Paduca, but still requiring the evidence of a vocabulary to prove them so.

  78. Say that they are the vestiges of a state of things that has passed away a thousand years, and we only come to the time of Nestor.

  79. You come to the hospital to learn--you come to the hospital to learn in the strictest sense of the word.

  80. In other words, if we follow the Lap eastwards we come into a whole fancy of congeners.

  81. Before I come to the special point of the present notice and to the explanation of its somewhat enigmatical heading, I must further define the sort of doctrine embodied in what I have called the belief of the unity of our species.

  82. When we come to the Times of the Conquest we must gird up our loins for the acquisition of a new Language.

  83. As far as the ear is concerned, the a is as long as the i, on the strength of the double t which is supposed to come after it.

  84. How come such things as plural numbers, and signs of plural numbers, into language?

  85. He was in agony, and suddenly, as though he had come to overlook his ministers, and to see if his orders were carried out, the executioner himself entered on the scene.

  86. Then if you will come with me," replied the oblate, addressing Durtal, "I will hand it you without delay.

  87. If we try to picture Him to ourselves and give Him a human wrappage, we come back to the simple conception of the early times, we represent Him under the features of an ancestor.

  88. Durtal; "I ought to have come to rest here before.

  89. I come to make a retreat, and I wish to see Father Etienne.

  90. I have come to recognize its absolute inadequacy, its complete incapacity to afford happiness.

  91. Now to come back to our point; I tell you you will do wisely, if on your bad evenings you will attend Benediction in that church.

  92. He had never confessed since his first communion, and with the piling up of years had come successive deposits of sins.

  93. That means that I come to them from far, an open and even transparent fact if you like.

  94. I know well that at Paris I shall never come to any good.

  95. The Doctor now reverted to this method; the boy had evidently come to pay him a visit of ceremony in acknowledgment of several invitations; he would not probably stay long.

  96. She would be sure to come in every day with cookies hidden somewhere about her, and then nibble.

  97. The game had come to be her greatest pleasure, she had therefore established and set going in her circle of friends the idea that it was an especial pleasure to Margaret also; Aunt Katrina was an adept in such tyrannies.

  98. Coming up from the water, they passed under the modern house reluctantly, supporting it under protest, as it were; their cold disapprovals seemed to come through the floors.

  99. After a while, still idly watching her hand come and go, Lanse began to laugh.

  100. But she did not at present discuss its outlines with Garda, she simply said, "I must come to the next sitting.

  101. Of course you don't; you will come home with me, my child; we will start this afternoon.

  102. I shall do it to-morrow; you are to come north with me the next time I go.

  103. Having thrown down his volume, with the sudden realization (it came to him occasionally) that he knew every word of it before beginning, Lanse sat among his cushions, watching her hand come and go.

  104. Miss Lucy must come to pass a week with her dear friends the Honourable Misses Sansterre!

  105. A propos of Dareville, he is to come into the administration.

  106. Your maxims are indisputable, and the conclusion you come to is excellent," said Brandon.

  107. Come down from thy dazzling sphere, Bird of the gushing song!

  108. Yet as the stars come out brighter and clearer While the day faints in the slow-fading west, So do the home-lights grow larger and nearer, Clearer the ray on the hills of thy rest.

  109. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

  110. Go; the voices of the dying Float on every passing breeze; Tones of wild, imploring crying Come from lands beyond the seas!

  111. Come up from the East by the shortest way, And try and part them; and you, too, go, Zephyrus!

  112. Why we hither come to die, Aliens from our garden-home?

  113. Mine they are, and thine may be, Weary wand'rer, come to me!

  114. Come in, then, you poor, little woman, I am sure you are freezing!

  115. Come down, O thou mystic revealer Of glories the day may not see!

  116. It would seem that, knowing the Spanish invaders were at hand, they had come hither with a fixed intention to die.

  117. He could follow with his eye the broad path where Rachel and he had so often walked together, and their conversation seemed to come before him with the greatest distinctness.

  118. From her earliest childhood, the knowledge of her exceptional beauty had made her careful to be on her guard against any advances from the other sex; but since her misfortune, she had come to regard every attention as a kind of persecution.

  119. Mr. Johnsen had come to ask the dean to fulfil the promise he had made to him some weeks previously, and to kindly give him permission to preach in the church the next Sunday.

  120. Garman, the old Consul, who had come into the property of Sandsgaard at a time when it was of little value, and considerably encumbered by debts, and when the business itself was in rather a confused condition.

  121. Thus, when any one complained to him of the bad times, he recommended them to come into the country; it was incredible how cheaply one could live there.

  122. Should he not come to-morrow, she would write to him.

  123. Come with me," said Gabriel to the workmen.

  124. This was all under the charge of Miss Cordsen, who, in accordance with the régime which had come down from the old Consul's time, produced the different wines according to the number and importance of the guests.

  125. No one said "Come in," and he therefore ventured to open the door slightly and look into the room.

  126. Fanny Garman had from the first shown herself particularly well disposed towards Madeleine, and had more than once invited her to come and pay her a visit in the town.

  127. He was not disappointed, for the moment his eyes met the calm and determined face, a change seemed to come over him.

  128. Come along now, feather-legs, what are you staring there for?

  129. The conviction had suddenly come to her with great force, that the end was near--come to her as it came to Elise.

  130. I have come to tell you that you must give up this dream," she said slowly.

  131. For a moment the thought possessed him that evil and ill had come to her.

  132. His eyes wandered about abstractedly, and fell again upon Elise's mother sleeping, unconscious of the awful peril passed, and the painful salvation come to her daughter.

  133. Other legacies were given to Medallion, to the family of Lagroin, of whom he still spoke as "my beloved General who died for me;" and ten francs to each recruit who had come to his standard.

  134. And so atoning for our sins, as did he, may we at last come to the perfect pardon, and to peace everlasting.

  135. So not as a supplicant did he come to her, but as one who demanded fiercely love for love.

  136. I come to claim the shoes of Hermes, the helmet of Pluto, the sword, and the shield that is mine own.

  137. What are ye warlike men wielding bright weapons, Wearing grey corselets and boar-adorned helmets, Who o'er the water-paths come with your foaming keel Ploughing the ocean surge?

  138. Only, to them as to Mowgli, Fear came, and the fear seemed to them to come from a malignant something from which they must make all haste to flee, did they value safety of mind and of body.

  139. The day for which, through all his short life, he had longed, had come at last.

  140. Thus did he persuade Charlemagne to send a messenger to Marsile, commanding him to deliver up the keys of Saragossa, in all haste to become a Christian, and in person to come and, with all humility, pay homage as vassal to Charlemagne.

  141. Into the explanation of creation and existence given by the Greeks come the stories of Prometheus and of Pandora.

  142. So he hastened to where they were, and when he asked them if they were indeed the children of Lîr, for whose sake he had come to Inis Glora, they told him all their piteous tale.

  143. Come to me, Marpessa, and my kisses on your lips shall make thee immortal!

  144. With hanging head he returned from the temple, for the oracle had told him that when his daughter Danaë had borne a son, by the hand of that son death must surely come upon him.

  145. I have looked up every possible train by which she could come down to Pine Tree Valley.

  146. It had been on a snowy winter afternoon when Dimbie and I had first come home.

  147. Come on, General Macintosh," he said resignedly, but Peter dozed on.

  148. And do you think this woman will ever come back?

  149. You see, I shan't be able to return your call, so please don't feel you must come again unless you want to.

  150. And then a day will come when I shall take you for your first walk, if I am anywhere near you, through the stately pine trees you loved so much as a child.

  151. I will try to come again, but won't promise.

  152. It's a lovely evening, and you might just happen to come across some squirrels and blackberries.

  153. Please open PHY for me and turn over the leaves till you come to Physiology, and then go and see about some tea.

  154. I shall leave you now, and perhaps you'll be calmer when I come back.

  155. I could hear him entreating her to come again, and she sounded a little more cheerful as she went away.

  156. Peter tried threats, bribery, shouting, drill language of the most fearful description; but Dimbie stuck manfully to his guns, and at last Peter was bound to admit that Dimbie must have come of some good fighting stock.

  157. One day they sent aght invitashuns to all ther neighbors an' friends to come to a tea drinkin.

  158. Nah, dooan't goa raand th' corners, but come straight to th' point.

  159. Tha'll come in this minit, or else aw'll warm thee!

  160. I think yo've come to th' rang haase; do yo tak this to be a jerry-hoil; or ha?

  161. It's a bonny come off, 'at me at's barn ommoss a duzzen children to thi should be shoved o' one side far a thing like yond!

  162. He said he'd come again, and if I didn't have the money ready.

  163. The prophecies that come to men from Heaven, Heaven has communicated through the emotions of the just and the pure, and not through the perceptions.

  164. The congregation is thinning; the young people don't come to the meetings, and the little children are afraid of you.

  165. Illustration: "Come ashore, you and your companion.

  166. Our camp is the other side of the balsam thicket there, and after you have built your own, we will come down and pass an hour with you, unless we should disturb you in your occupation or your pleasure.

  167. I trust the pups will be reasonable and come down with the current.

  168. So the old-fashioned sleigh was quickly surrounded by the light, fancy cutters of the rival racers and Old Jack was shambling along in the midst of the high-spirited and smoking nags that had just come down the stretch.

  169. Where do you think the gentleman has come from, Oliver?

  170. I have got names ready made to the end of the alphabet, and all the way through it again, when we come to Z.

  171. He had come a long way though, and should lose a great deal of time by doing so.

  172. Make him come home, there’s good people, or he’ll kill his dear mother and father, and break my heart!

  173. You haven’t opened the parcel and swallowed one or two as you come along, have you?

  174. And now come here, and I’ll show you how to take the marks out of the handkerchiefs.

  175. I felt a strange presentiment from the very first, that that audacious young savage would come to be hung!

  176. For they give great largesses where they come upon all occasions.

  177. And we make (by art) in the same orchards and gardens, trees and flowers to come earlier or later than their seasons; and to come up and bear more speedily than by their natural course they do.

  178. When we were come within six yards of their boat, they called to us to stay, and not to approach farther; which we did.

  179. He said, "I am by office governor of this House of Strangers, and by vocation I am a Christian priest: and therefore am come to you to offer you my service, both as strangers and chiefly as Christians.

  180. Therefore I do testify and declare unto that people where God shall ordain this ark to come to land, that in the same day is come unto them salvation and peace and good-will, from the Father, and from the Lord Jesus.

  181. Besides we are come here amongst a Christian people, full of piety and humanity: let us not bring that confusion of face upon ourselves, as to show our vices, or unworthiness before them.

  182. She had hoped that he might come back, but for days past she had given it up, when now, making her heart leap with a joy she could not conceal, came the welcome sound from the darkness beneath where she leaned.

  183. Come to the library for your wages at ten to-morrow morning.

  184. These fits only come on at times; perhaps during a walk, and then the inclination is so strong that I do not feel either the power or desire to battle with it.

  185. Mrs Norton," he said at last, "I have come to inflict pain, but I cannot help it.

  186. And now it has come to this--I've asked you to pay me, and you won't.

  187. In spite of himself, Sir Murray Gernon started; for after months of waiting, it seemed to come to him with a sudden light flashing in upon his mind that he had found that which he had sought.

  188. You, McCray, come with me, unless Williams has returned.

  189. Mrs Norton welcomed her heartily, but almost in dread, not knowing what interpretation might be placed upon the visit, should it come to Sir Murray's ears.

  190. I must think about it, and before many hours I will come over to the Castle, and see either Sir Murray or Lady Gernon.

  191. Brace turned, startled at the change that had come upon his rival, the young man's heart quailed for a few moments, for he was standing within six paces of the Viscount, who was taking deadly aim at his breast.

  192. When you have been walking out in the snow, if you come into your room, you will scarcely be able to see any thing for some minutes.

  193. Before you go into a warm bath, the temperature of the air may seem warm and agreeable to you, but after you have remained for some time in a bath that is rather hot, when you come out, you feel the air uncommonly cool and chilling.

  194. Not to mention riches and honors, even food and raiment are not to be come at without the toil of the hands and sweat of the brow.

  195. Nothing is more common than to see, even very young children come to the table after dinner, to drink a glass of wine.

  196. So long as that person continues in the cold air, he feels no bad effects; but if he come into a warm room, he first perceives a glow within his nostrils and breast, as well as all over the surface of the body.

  197. I'll come here and make these fellows feel sick.

  198. Friday morning he was even ready for more; but that morning Bobbie had to weed the vegetable garden in back of his house and could not come around.

  199. Every now and then he would come upon Tim, standing like a statue--waiting and listening.

  200. What he wanted to say next didn't come so easily.

  201. If Tim, with his temper and his eagerness to come to blows, should take command--Don shook his head.

  202. An air of suspense seemed to come down over them there in the road.

  203. When you come out on this field, you come out to play ball.

  204. Tim would go out in front and come back, and then go off to the sides.

  205. If you vote for me," Andy said sharply, "this will be a tie until the cows come home.

  206. There was just a possibility that Tim might come around.

  207. He had started for Lonesome Woods in high spirits the last time, and had come home in the dumps.

  208. You had better come to the field," the captain said.


  209. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "come" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accomplish; accost; achieve; advance; aggregate; amount; anticipate; appear; approach; approximate; arise; arrive; attain; await; become; befall; betide; chance; climax; close; collect; come; confront; debouch; develop; effuse; ejaculate; emanate; emerge; encounter; enter; erupt; expect; fall; fetch; find; flow; foresee; foretell; gain; get; give; grow; hap; happen; hazard; hit; hope; issue; loom; make; materialize; near; number; occur; originate; outcrop; pass; plan; plot; predict; project; prophesy; protrude; pull; reach; rise; show; sidle; spring; stem; stream; surface; threaten; total; transpire; turn; wax


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    come about; come across; come again; come alive; come alongside; come among; come ashore; come away; come close; come closer; come doun; come fill; come from; come near; come nigh; come out; come over; come quickly; come round; come tell; come unto; come upstairs; come where; come with; comes back; comes forward