How To Use coming upon In A Sentence
- One of these was, that he called Aegina "the eyesore of the Peiraeus," and that "he saw war coming upon Athens from Peloponnesus. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
- They play it with the enthusiasm of pioneers coming upon uncharted and unclaimed land.
- He was just hungry and curious enough to follow his nose and went down a new alley, coming upon an Arab with an eye patch over one eye, cooking a hunk of meat on a spit over a open fire.
- He seeks benefit from things which do him injury, thinks the impermanent to be permanent, sees the highest good in that which is evil, and yet he does not see that death is coming upon him.
- When the Rifleman discovered the canoe lying against the bank, he sprung from the water, coming upon the frail barken structure with such force that he perceptibly started the bottom. The Riflemen of the Miami
- They are a bunch of desperate slippery folks, and re-election and banishment is coming upon them soon.
- A British district officer, coming upon a scene of suttee, was told by the locals that in Hindu culture it was the custom to cremate a widow on her husband's funeral pyre.
- The joy of a second-hand bookshop is browsing and sometimes coming upon a treasure. Times, Sunday Times
- -- A sprain is usually the result of some involuntary stress coming upon the part. Papers on Health
- When I saw him that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall, I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down.
