How to Use come over to in a Sentence

come over to

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  • Just last week, Amerie Jo had come over to Garza’s house to swim in the pool with her cousins.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
  • Love asks Marienne to come over to their house and tells her the truth about Joe’s past.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2023
  • One of her male Afghan friends had come over to cook, while Tahiry served me black tea.
    Maddy Crowell, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Their neighbor’s teenage sons ask to come over to play the course often.
    Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2021
  • All that said, the idea of having Keith come over to the U.S. version isn’t far-fetched.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Steve Adegoke was in the secondary and is going to come over to receivers.
    Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2022
  • People would come over to their house and bring gifts in exchange for a healing.
    Michelle Chubb, refinery29.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • On bad days, the neighbors would come over to make sure everything was okay.
    Michael Del Castillo, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
  • My mother’s friends would come over to our house for mah-jongg but mainly just to eat my food.
    Bon Appétit, 14 May 2021
  • This is how humans want to live, the set suggests, so maybe Christina has come over to their side.
    Dystopias Aug. 8, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Dear Miss Manners: I was brought up to offer drinks and/or food to people who come over to my house.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Dillon Brooks just drives by Rudy Gay here — not a huge surprise — but Kessler is able to play two well enough to come over to get the block.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
  • His siblings come over to him, and he’s primed if the right mixture of guilt and tenderness is shown to him for that stuff to come out.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Here, Harry gestures for one of the family members to come over to him and William.
    Marie Claire, 1 July 2021
  • Silva lived with his father but would come over to Allen’s house each day for breakfast.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
  • By the end of the party, everyone has come over to his side — including the baby, who smiles at him.
    Sam Anderson, New York Times, 3 June 2023
  • On Friday mornings, four other volunteers on the autism spectrum come over to the house to help sort and bag the items.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Viktor has two siblings who will come over to America with him.
    Fox News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • When Stone reached out to the young athlete and asked him to come over to his Marietta apartment, the other coach authorized the visit, the suit said.
    Asia Simone Burns, ajc, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Scully, who died last week at the age of 94, would have his pregame dinner with the other broadcasters, then come over to our table to chat about the Mets and gather notes for the game.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Brenda told Dateline their house is filled with laughter again, laughter from the grandchildren who come over to the farm that’s once again referred to as a kid’s dream.
    NBC News, 24 Mar. 2021
  • My grandpa would literally come over to my house, open and close the drapes and the drawers, see if there was anything that needed fixing.
    Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2022
  • A couple is sipping iced coffees and eating croissants while a carousel of people come over to say hello.
    Hazlitt, 15 Mar. 2023
  • On that summer afternoon, some friends had come over to play with the Farrow and Previn children, and several caretakers were around to watch them.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Moments later, more curious gorillas come over to check out the scene before the largest gorilla bounds over to the delight of the crowd watching.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2021
  • If the other parents don't want to have those conversations, suggest their kids come over to your house instead, Crifasi said.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 9 Dec. 2021
  • His uncle—who lived a couple of hours away—had come over to create a giant Halloween display, with enormous spiders and webs, and the boy showed me everything.
    Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Zink’s still having a little trouble adjusting to the possibility of having vaccinated friends come over to her house, even though the CDC says that’s allowable.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2021

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