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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"
• The curse has come upon us. Times, Sunday Times
• 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)
• Howe and Strauss Envisioned another Civil War era: They may be right yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Howe and Strauss Envisioned another Civil War era: They may be right'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Howe and Strauss, in "The Fourth Turning" (1997) predicted, through their saeculum view of the historical process, an era come upon us which would equal the American Revolution, Civil War, and Great Depression eras.' Howe and Strauss Envisioned another Civil War era : They may be right
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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