How to Use come across in a Sentence

come across

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• Hiltz broke the finish-line tape and a huge smile came across their face.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 9 July 2023
• But on the whole, the show comes across as too pleased with itself, and/or too eager to please.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2023
• In the search for a new, safe home, the wayward band comes across a group of neohumans.
  — Kayti Burt, TIME, 19 July 2024
• For the most part, though, that comes across as an outlier.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
• For one thing, there are just more people coming across the bridges and through the tunnels.
  — Jordyn Holman John Taggart, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• Once, in grade school, Frank and I came across a small shark caught by a fisherman with a rod and reel.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• The green, yellow, and blue on the right side of the image have puzzled me and many players that have come across it.
  — Saniya Ahmed, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2023
• By the standards of the day, that may come across as a radical statement.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• While many leather watch straps can come across as rustic and chunky or padded and plush, the Quince is neither.
  — Tim Barribeau, wsj.com, 27 Oct. 2023
• And, sure, the winning run only came across to score by way of an Oakland wild pitch.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2023
• The magic of being a middle grader doesn’t come across the same way.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• The last few seconds of the video come across as a fan edit of Swift and Kelce’s whirlwind romance.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2024
• Almost every taster who comes across Rowan's Creek gets a big old note of some type of nut.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2024
• On the dark side, be wary of coming across as selfish and self-absorbed when your needs aren't met.
  — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
• The buoyant anarchy and glee David Yow shared with the crowd came across as a birthing moment of joy.
  — Seth Dodson, Pitchfork, 6 May 2024
• The puzzle-maker risks coming across as better, smarter, and more clever than the rest of us.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024
• The deepest of these sub-bass synth notes come across with subwoofer-like rumble.
  — PCMAG, 8 Aug. 2024
• If so, what is the news coming across, who is telling it most profoundly?
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 25 Sep. 2023
• How did this book first come across your desk, and what about it interested you to want to adapt it for the big screen?
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2024
• Before long, nostalgic math whizzes of decades past came across the site.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• Otherwise, this whole thing might have come across as weird.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Feb. 2024
• That is the message that has come across to the Minnesota Vikings and the team has responded with a 2-0 getaway.
  — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• Taking on Trump Willis has often described the first time Trump came across her desk.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2023
• Goggle straps should come across the center of the back of the head for better performance and comfort.
  — Ambrosia V. Brody, Parents, 14 Mar. 2024
• Aquarius is known for being cool and cerebral, which can come across as aloof.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
• There is a vibrancy of sound on the new recording that somehow didn’t quite come across in the concert hall.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• And yet, now and then, eastern fossil hunters come across these rare dinosaurs.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
• At Le Coq, those flavors come across in a duck-breast plate that features tamarind puree, kumquat, and chicory.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 June 2024
• The quotes in the Post article from Nothing and Sunbird come across as a dare more than anything else.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
• The bailiff, police have said, came across a person with a weapon trying to attack him during the eviction.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024