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• The hunk of metal appears to have come to rest on the steering wheel.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• But those songs more than held their own against the songs on which her legacy has come to rest.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2023
• Where should the pendulum come to rest in a post-pandemic sales world?
  — Forrester, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• The first officers on the scene found a Toyota Rav 4 on fire and a Chrysler 300 that had come to rest against the barrier on the eastern side of the bridge.
  — oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2021
• Her body … had come to rest upon a log after the water started to recede a bit.
  — Correspondent Maureen Maher, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2021
• And that's my thing, is to come to rest on a moderate place like that and not have to be so militaristic about it.
  — Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 16 June 2022
• With a few minutes left, Ms. Lennie is staring at a problem: Two of the other team’s rocks are in the ring, having come to rest six inches apart.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• These light-detecting orbs come to rest suspended in the pitch-dark depths down as far as 4,000 feet below the surface.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
• There was a truckload of other people’s furniture by her pool, and a 40-foot sailboat had come to rest under the house.
  — al, 18 Sep. 2020
• The device has previously come to rest in swamps and rice paddies and tangled itself 60 feet up in a longleaf pine.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2012
• Their nomadic existence will finally come to rest in a basketball palace.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• Though there were no facts about Johnson’s life and no photograph or even likeness on the jacket, the album caused a slowly rolling tremor that shook musicians and listeners around the world and has never come to rest.
  — Greil Marcus, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• The principal axis leads from less important to more important spaces, to come to rest at some ultimate point of repose.
  — Michael J. Lewis, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
• Timothy Cox, the Fair Haven harbor master, spent Wednesday afternoon retrieving boats that had broken from their moorings and come to rest on land.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• Two cars had hit each other, ricocheted in opposite directions, and come to rest against concrete barriers on either side, slipping between the plastic posts meant to demarcate the bike lanes.
  — Curbed, 20 July 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024