VERB
- come into fashion; become fashionable
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take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
Jerry came in third in the Marathon -
to insert between other elements
She interjected clever remarks -
to come or go into
the boat entered an area of shallow marshes -
be received
News came in of the massacre in Rwanda
How To Use come in In A Sentence
- If they come in close and start getting a bit tasty, then they find I can hand it out too.
- Cap Cities executives said they were hopeful approval would come in a couple of weeks.
- Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
- In wartime, heroes come into being in times of crisis; in peacetime, they come into existence by doing trifles in everyday life.
- These small exquisitely carved ivory figurines come in an almost limitless variety.
- Locked into declining industries and a shrinking public sector, unions have become ineffective. Times, Sunday Times
- Other handy bits and pieces like plasters, handkerchief, aftersun and a needle and thread can also come in handy, and don't take up too much room.
- Offensive junk mail, in particular that of an adult nature has become increasingly an issue to all of us onliners and site owners alike.
- A new EU directive on maternity leave will come into force next month.
- The urn as unravished bride proleptically contains its ravishment as a natural outcome in the ritual of weddings that parallels the consummation of questions asked. Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
