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
In Memphis, he has an experience that makes him realize that he is not as sophisticated or worldly as he thought: he meets a boy by chance on the road, and they come upon a jug of bootleg alcohol.
The administrations have been so frightened right divided adays. come upon relatives would we verbalise up to these people. No broadcasts from Section 1 finals | Varsity Insider
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
For now there had come upon Foxden that political, sanatory, anti-everything revival, which, in those days, thrilled through our river-towns and took the place of the theological revival, which the churches seemed too feeble to produce. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863
A document was written out by Dewan Sewlal promising that in the event of the decoits carrying out the mission they had come upon the estate would be restored to Raja Karowlee, and that he would be compelled to assign to the three decoit leaders villages within that territory in rent free tenure. Caste
I personally have not come upon chauvinistic attitudes on the part of men I have trained with.
As you stroll through the grounds, you may eventually come upon a most impressive tomb - for the famous English homophile, Oscar Wilde.
Only the mind of an extremist could conceptualise a continuum that moves beyond "extremeist" and then come upon "Socialist". McCain: Obama Is An Extremist, "I Don't Know" If He's A Socialist
My friend and I have just come upon a picturesque farmhouse on a rolling prairie.
As I pushed through the last strings of a job lot of whalebone corsets, I was finally able to come upon the books.
I remember, too, that one of the men quoted "Father Taylor," (as they call the seamen's preacher at Boston,) who told them that if they were ordered to work on Sunday, they must not refuse their duty, and the blame would not come upon them. Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
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.
In the trenches during the First World War, two foot-soldiers come upon the unconscious figure of an officer.
“Heavenly Blue” morning glories sufflated by this new breeze come upon us now, coincident with a ritual the French actually have a word for, “la rentrée” * — applying equally to grownups back from extended vacations and schoolchildren beginning their semester. “The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Had not unforeseen anxieties come upon us, no lot on earth could have been more perfectly delicious in the quality of enjoyment, both for body and spirit, than that sojourn upon the wild hill; among ourselves were innocence and union, consequently peace; time was profitably spent; and our recreations were, practice in the tonic sol-fa singing lessons, with sketching and rambling on foot or on horseback over the breezy heights of Byeways in Palestine
I have come upon an unpleasant errand -- an affair, indeed, which ought to be no business of mine; but sometimes, when you care a little for some one, you don't mind running the risk of being treated as an intermeddler. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
Fleming had earlier made a study of different substances which prevent the growth of bacteria and, inter alia, had come upon one in lacrimal fluid and saliva, the so-called lysozyme. Physiology or Medicine 1945 - Presentation Speech
At last they come upon it - the farmhouse covered in wisteria, hydrangeas in bloom all around, the yarrow and cornflowers, the daisies and black-eyed susans.
Full often did I groan: "Justly has this sorrow come upon me because I deserted the Paraclete, which is to say the Consoler, and thrust myself into sure desolation; seeking to shun threats I fled to certain peril. Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes
Even when walking outside, if you come upon one of those giant swarms of gnats that are always inconveniently right in your path, if you take on the swarm head on, you will suffer nothing more than a head full of gnats.
It could not be fixed upon the people drowned in the wreck of the bawley, as neither Stenning nor I, nor anyone, could give more than presumptive evidence that the bawley we had come upon not far from the Eddystone had anything to do with the affair. Movie Night
They come upon the Satyrs and their father Silenus, who have been separated from their god Dionysus and enslaved by a Cyclops. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
This marine collagen, which is cultivated from sea kelp, is an ingredient he has uniquely come upon and as such has a patent pending. Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: Eco-Salons of Hollywood
The point is how quickly profound changes come upon us.
Taylor '' (as they call the seamen's preacher at Boston), who told them that, if they were ordered to work on Sunday, they must not refuse their duty, and the blame would not come upon them. Two Years Before the Mast
Judge will speedily take vengeance; the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Perhaps the editor had never come upon the word gunsel before; perhaps it even flashed across his mind that no such word existed (it is not in desk dictionaries); in any event, it was perfectly natural for the editor, having caught and deleted the supposedly offensive phrase, to let gunsel slip past. In The Queens' Parlour
They stumble upon a creepy mansion, and come upon a strange family with a dark secret.
At last they come upon it - the farmhouse covered in wisteria, hydrangeas in bloom all around, the yarrow and cornflowers, the daisies and black-eyed Susans.
I remember, too, that one of the men quoted Father Taylor, (as they call the seamens preacher at Boston,) who told them that if they were ordered to work on Sunday, they must not refuse their duty, and the blame would not come upon them. Chapter XII. Life at Monterey
So that, even in Stoker (no Shelleyian phonologist he), we come upon the last clause in Mina Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
They understood as well as everybody else that something was wrong, — that there was to be some change as to Marie which perhaps would not be a change for the better; that there was cause for melancholy, for close kissing as though such kissing were in preparation for parting, and for soft strokings with their little hands as though Marie were to be pitied for that which was about to come upon her. The Golden Lion of Granpere
Had Alvarez allowed his eye to stray one entry beyond OED's kesh, dialect for kex, an umbelliferous plant, he would have come upon kesh-work with a cross reference to kish, Irish for a wicker basket, and by extension to a causeway built up on wicker baskets of earth or stone, and to a corduroy road. Kesh & Loaning
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 2 Nephi 5:21. Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.: Mitt Romney And The Curse of Blackness
If they did, they, too, would die, and God's wrath would come upon the whole congregation.
They stumble upon a creepy mansion, and come upon a strange family with a dark secret.
How fortunate he had been to come upon Enid alone and talk to her without interruption, without once seeing Mrs. Royces face, always masked in powder, peering at him from behind a drawn blind. II. Book Two: Enid
As a special group the female students is about to come upon the stage, the expectation of obtaining employment characterize differently others.
The man had come upon him like the eruption of a jack-in-the-box. The Benefit of the Doubt
The Marines just happened to come upon them an hour after the soldiers were ambushed.
The calamities that had come upon the Grove since were a direct result of that meeting. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
At least, methinks, from the Covenant which GOD made with _Abraham_, and his Seed, _the Blessings of which_ are _come upon the_ believing _Gentiles_ [r], there is Reason to hope well concerning the Infant Offspring of GOD'S People, early devoted, and often recommended to him, that their _Souls_ will be _bound in the Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children Recommended and inforced, in a sermon preached at Northampton, on the death of a very amiable and hopeful child, about five years old
Heading back, we come upon a group of kids walking with buckets full of berries, their lips and a wide ring beyond purpled with berry juice, their teeth appearing unnaturally white as they smile and wave.
These Oreads are peculiar: they come upon you with an unearthly charm, like some starlight evening; they inspire a wild but not warm delight; their beauty is the beauty of spirits: their grace is not the grace of life, but of seasons or scenes in nature: theirs is the dewy bloom of morning - the languid flush of evening - the peace of the moon - the changefulness of clouds. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
radio, afraid that she might accidently come upon that ranting, hysterical voice which had blighted their lives. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Then they surprised me with an account of a fearfully crevassed piece of surface that they had come upon, forty-six and a half miles from the station, where they had lost two dogs. The South Pole~ Depot Journeys
The age of myth and miracle had come upon the world again.
WHITBECK: Well, they say they already have crews out on those roads and as they come upon parts of the roads that are blocked, they're going ahead and reopening them and that's why La Paz, which is the largest city in the region has about 150,000 people, has not been cut off. CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2006
We warmed our hands as though a sudden chill had come upon us at the mention of his name.
He had always laughed at what he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon himself. Sole Music
As the Arabs ignore blank verse, when we come upon a rhymeless couplet we know that it is an extract from a longer composition in monorhyme. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Then we come upon the working of miracles, which we should call the production of phenomena, and which would cover many different types, such as apports, where objects are brought from a distance, levitation of objects or of the human frame into the air, the production of lights and other wonders. The Vital Message
If you are deeply disturbed by the sinister implications, both corporate and gustatory, imagine my shock as I reeled out of the supermarket, my mind awhirl with the grisliest of possibilities, only to come upon this terrible scene at the docks, mere minutes away (click to enlarge): The Cannibals of Galway
Scarcely were these words concluded, but she felt the custome of women to come upon her, with the paines and throwes incident to childing: wherefore, with helpe of the aged Lady, Mother to Signior The Decameron
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Recovering From Religious Abuse
The scene in Dances with Wolves where the Souix Indians come upon the herd of slaughtered buffalo and the white man had only used miniscule parts of the buffalo. COMMENT AWARDS: PORTMAN, ANIMAL CRUELTY
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Terrors shall come upon them: God will cause an alarm of war to be heard, even in Rabbah, their capital city and a very strong one, v. 1. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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"
Myself humming to myself (which now-a-days is my constant practice since I begun to learn to sing) the trillo, and found by use that it do come upon me. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S.
Having come upon the earliest mosques of Cairo, Chateaubriand proclaims not the Muslim caliphs nor their architects to be the origin of Islamic architectural grandeur; rather he romanticizes a legacy stretching back four millennia. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)
I may come upon something that'll throw some extra light on this.
We return to Pátzcuaro and come upon yet another entire plaza lined in glassware - ceramic plates and pots piled high. Pátzcuaro
As thoughts turn to food, we come upon the market stalls, where my kebab-shop heaven is suddenly made manifest.
I fancy myself meeting you on 'the stairs' ” stairs and passages generally, and galleries (ah, thou indeed!) all, with their picturesque accidents, of landing-places, and spiral heights and depths, and sudden turns and visions of half open doors into what Quarles calls 'mollitious chambers' ” and above all, landing-places ” they are my heart's delight ” I would come upon you unaware in a landing-place in my next dream! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
For two nights Caris sat near that tall, gangly figure bent over the fire, gazing into the embers with his spectacles throwing back the fulvous glow, watching the roads for the approach of danger or, indeed, of anyone or anything that might come upon them and spread word of their presence. The Silicon Mage
'For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me and that which I was afraid of is come unto me... "It was so apropos. ICED
On digging or boring below these, we ought to come upon the chalk, and below the chalk again, with its cretaceous congeners the greensand or the gault, we ought to meet the Weald clay and the Hastings sand. Science in Arcady
Hard times have come upon us, the loss of one leader is immeasurable but two is measureless.
Had Alvarez allowed his eye to stray one entry beyond OED's kesh, dialect for kex, an umbelliferous plant, he would have come upon kesh-work with a cross reference to kish, Irish for a wicker basket, and by extension to a causeway built up on wicker baskets of earth or stone, and to a corduroy road. Kesh & Loaning
The curse has come upon us. Times, Sunday Times
The book is arranged geographically, and in all cases the English word "shire" is omitted, with the result that we come upon such an extremely curious monster as "le Comté de Shrop. Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
The age of myth and miracle had come upon the world again.
If you are deeply disturbed by the sinister implications, both corporate and gustatory, imagine my shock as I reeled out of the supermarket, my mind awhirl with the grisliest of possibilities, only to come upon this terrible scene at the docks, mere minutes away (click to enlarge): July « 2009 « Sentence first
I love browsing a shelf full of books I don't know much about, only to come upon a neat shelftalker dangling below a book with a handwritten recommendation from a real, live bookseller who loved it and wants me to share the joy. Jason Pinter: 10 Things Bookstores Need to Do to Help Themselves
There's a bit story I micht as weel tell ye mesel ', for yell hear it frae Mac in any case, if ever ye chance to come upon him. Between You and Me
Thou lubber, better for thee that thou wert not now, nor ever hadst been born, if indeed thou tremblest before this man, and art so terribly afraid; an old man too he is, and foredone with the travail that is come upon him. Book XVIII
Am I to fear that some right-wing trog might have completely evaded reference to this non-story amidst the likely sources of disinformation he/she accesses, but just HAPPENED to come upon it, reading reference to it in the comments section of a progressive blog? New Obama Ad Sketches His American Story
You even have it if the remnant of your unfinished cup of tea has been accidentally thrown away by someone else, who's come upon it and thought it unwanted, of no account.
Looking over my notes of this excursion, I come upon the following sentence: "To sit on a stone beside a mountain road, with olive-backed thrushes piping on every side, the ear catching now and then the distant tinkle of a winter wren's tune, or the nearer _zee, zee, zee_ of black-poll warblers, while white-throated sparrows call cheerily out of the spruce forest -- this is to be in another world. The Foot-path Way
Melissa was flustered in her ladylike terror of being come upon uncovered in those disarraying exertions of vigorous sexual informalities and, blushing, wished him, for a change, to finish fast; but she laughed when he did and disclosed the ruse as she was checking his baggage for his medicines and preparing to ride with him to the airport before his flight to Kenosha at the start of his journey. Closing Time

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