Sentence examples for were come to from inspiring English sources

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No longer shibboleths of class membership and masculinity, the dead languages have, as it were, come to life.

Your painted pout and cold gaze were, come to think of it, very like the official lips and eyes of Flora, my wayward wife, and your flimsy frock of black silk might have come from her recent wardrobe".

It is easy to imagine that if the driving-while-texting were come to light, the driver would face withering blame, public shaming, guilt and perhaps even legal repercussions.

Moschus describes fragrant narcissi in his Idylls, "Now the girls so soon as they were come to the flowering meadows took great delight in various sorts of flowers whereof one would pluck sweet breathed narcissus" (Europa and the Bull), and narcissi were said to have been part of Europa's floral headdress.

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"They were coming to assassinate me.

They were coming to watch them drop.

"Many people were coming to me.

She's come to help".

This is what it's come to.

That's what it's come to.

So it's come to that.

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