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Example sentences for "comes from"

  • I have another letter for the duke," replied Ralph, "which I shall deliver first, as I know who it comes from.

  • If you be a lover, it comes from no rival; if you be a friend, it comes from a friend no less sincere; if you be a relation, there are lines within it from one who has loved the person addressed as sincerely as any relative could love.

  • He would not tell his name; but he says that he comes from M.

  • It comes from Rome, father," answered the servant, bowing.

  • And whatever is cross to these, comes from ignorance of, or from wresting, the rule of righteousness out of its place.

  • It was used particularly to signify instruments of music, so much so that our word "organ" comes from it.

  • Whether the bit of lights the cat is eating, comes from an ox, a pig, or a sheep, you may look at it with perfect confidence; your own lung is precisely like it.

  • Do not trouble yourself as to where it comes from.

  • Peace be unto you' comes from many a lip, and is addressed to many an ear, unfulfilled.

  • Wherever the new life is vigorous in men, men will hear the sound thereof, and recognise that it comes from heaven.

  • Let us be confident that the light will break; and let us welcome the new illumination when it comes, sure that it comes from God.

  • It comes from above, and is the same as what is above.

  • Soraya for setting sun, is identic with Surya of the Hindus: whence came Syria the west, and even our word sorrow; while Sol comes from Sheol.

  • It comes from Ol hollow or graved record.

  • He comes from very, very far away, and he follows some customs of the Tuscaroras, which they in turn borrow from a tribe which lives so far away that I should go to sleep in counting the miles for you.

  • One fact peculiar to all kinds of masonry and known to all careful observers is that stone work, brick work, and concrete will allow dampness to permeate, whether it comes from water-bearing soil or a driving rain.

  • The air, wafted by this current, comes from a hemisphere consisting almost entirely of water.

  • It comes from a want of elasticity in the emotional fibres.

  • He is a Mr. John Strangewey, and he comes from Cumberland.

  • He comes from Cumberland, and he once--well, very nearly saved my life.

  • Wait till she is your happy wife; and then give her a kiss, and say it comes from Anne.

  • It varies in price; and when it's particularly seductive you may swear it comes from Paris.

  • When I asked you what you thought of my niece's figure, I meant--how much of it comes from Nature, and how much of it comes from the Shop?

  • Brihaspati' comes from Çiva through Brahm[=a] and Indra.

  • It comes from a graveyard full of "little deaths.

  • Dearest: I am haunted by a line of quotation, and cannot think where it comes from: "Now sets the year in roaring gray.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comes from" 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:
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