How to Use come across in a Sentence

come across

verb

• Hiltz broke the finish-line tape and a huge smile came across their face.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 9 July 2023
• But on the whole, the show comes across as too pleased with itself, and/or too eager to please.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2023
• For the most part, though, that comes across as an outlier.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
• For one thing, there are just more people coming across the bridges and through the tunnels.
  — Jordyn Holman John Taggart, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• Once, in grade school, Frank and I came across a small shark caught by a fisherman with a rod and reel.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• By the standards of the day, that may come across as a radical statement.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• While many leather watch straps can come across as rustic and chunky or padded and plush, the Quince is neither.
  — Tim Barribeau, wsj.com, 27 Oct. 2023
• And, sure, the winning run only came across to score by way of an Oakland wild pitch.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2023
• The magic of being a middle grader doesn’t come across the same way.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Almost every taster who comes across Rowan's Creek gets a big old note of some type of nut.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2024
• The buoyant anarchy and glee David Yow shared with the crowd came across as a birthing moment of joy.
  — Seth Dodson, Pitchfork, 6 May 2024
• The puzzle-maker risks coming across as better, smarter, and more clever than the rest of us.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024
• If so, what is the news coming across, who is telling it most profoundly?
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 25 Sep. 2023
• Before long, nostalgic math whizzes of decades past came across the site.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• Otherwise, this whole thing might have come across as weird.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Feb. 2024
• Taking on Trump Willis has often described the first time Trump came across her desk.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2023
• Goggle straps should come across the center of the back of the head for better performance and comfort.
  — Ambrosia V. Brody, Parents, 14 Mar. 2024
• Aquarius is known for being cool and cerebral, which can come across as aloof.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
• The quotes in the Post article from Nothing and Sunbird come across as a dare more than anything else.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
• Jones wants the former school house to attract people to modernist texts who might not come across them.
  — Grace Banks, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• Both of Garver’s recent throws were just to the first base side of second, allowing the shortstop to come across the bag and make a tag.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
• In the viral clip, Bad Bunny and a woman, thought to be The Kardashians star came across a chipmunk.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
• These men come across almost as villainized as Richard was in Shakespeare’s play.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Mar. 2023
• The deepest of these sub-bass synth hits come across with subwoofer-like rumble but never overtake the balance of the mix.
  — PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
• Then plumbers laying a waterline trench near 770 came across a section of the tunnel.
  — Curbed, 10 Jan. 2024
• Leo Leo moons come across as boisterous, proud and a bit dramatic at times.
  — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2024
• Whereas Tian bounces and bubbles his way through the world, Semrai comes across as focused and deadpan.
  — Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
• Such a revelation came across my Twitter feed in the form of a viral video about the best way to load a dishwasher.
  — Susan Hall Mahon, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2023
• Dixon thought of the idea having come across architect Wolf Hilbertz’s plan to build a city underwater, then float it to the surface.
  — Stephen Armstrong, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
• But despite her fame, Winslet always came across as down to earth, and Susan Dominus’s lovely profile proves this to be very much the case.
  — Longreads, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024