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take possession of
She entered upon the estate of her rich relatives -
find unexpectedly
the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb
The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake
she struck a goldmine
How To Use come upon In A Sentence
- 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
- Who come upon us to distrain -- we pay them back in blows. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
- Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision