walk in on

phrasal verb

walked in on; walking in on; walks in on

: to enter a room and interrupt (someone or something)

He walked in on me when I was getting dressed.

She walked in on the meeting.

Examples of walk in on in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While the lawsuit does not detail what may have happened to the infant at the day care, the complaint says a day care employee walked in on a worker shaking another student weeks before the other child’s injuries were discovered. —Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2025

Authorities later determined that Maggie had walked in on intruders who were robbing her parents’ home. —Faith Karimi, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025

The eatery appears to have a food poisoning case after Ramsay — no stranger to restaurants in crisis — walks in on a customer vomiting outside. —Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025

One day, when Jane Doe 1 was 13, Chavez Sr. walked in on Chavez Jr. raping her, police testified. —Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024

Rhymes for walk in on

• aileron
• antiphon
• autobahn
• carillon
• castellan
• celadon
• cephalon
• chitosan
• cynodon
• denouement
• deuteron
• echelon