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How To Use come upon In A Sentence

• We do not come upon monster advertisements of antibilious pills, hair dye, or soap amid olive groves and vineyards. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
• For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them. Katie Halper: Prop 8 Lets Mormons Tell Other People Their Marriages Are F*&^#$ Up
• About half-way back to Boston I slowed down even further to go round a blind bend in the road, to come upon a police car and a mobile speed camera.
• Amid all the dust and the commerce we come upon a guy stationed at a cardboard carton desk.
• Now the body is "corruptible," the body is "mortal:" so that the body indeed remains, for it is the body which is put on; but its mortality and corruption vanish away, when immortality and incorruption come upon it. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
• They come upon the villagers from the town being taunted by donkey braying and find them readying themselves for battle.
• It is so rare in this age of reposts and blog recycling to come upon something truly new and so helpfully detailed in its description.
• There are two things which hinder or disenable men from believing with faith divine and supernatural, when any divine revelation is objectively proposed unto them: -- First, The natural blindness and darkness of their minds, which are come upon all by the fall, and the depravation of their nature that ensued thereon. Pneumatologia
• It is essentially a family company that has come upon hard times.
• It come upon me like a shot -- _my shot_ was nothing to it! Tales and Novels — Volume 09