How to Use come along in a Sentence
come along
verb-
And when the boss comes along for some all-you-can-eat bites, odds are high that no food will fly.
— Diane Brady, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Instead of settling for the first solution or explanation that comes along, challenge yourself to dig deeper.
— Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 -
And, as Howard said, the points just happened to come along the way.
— Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 10 Feb. 2023 -
So, proud of his progress, and the rest of the team has to keep coming along.
— Joe Morgan, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023 -
Then, around the same time, Jean Claude Van Damme came along.
— Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023 -
Or was this just a case of the right project coming along?
— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024 -
Her sister, the artist Phebe Mitchell Kendall, came along to sketch the eclipse.
— Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024 -
If someone comes along and tries to take you, tries to make you.
— Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024 -
Just keep putting in the effort and the heavier weights will come along.
— David Otey, Men's Health, 23 Feb. 2023 -
How much longer until the next great thing comes along?
— Matthew Stern, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023 -
There are artists that come along that feel like their hands reached out and take ours.
— Marc Malkin, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023 -
But if there's a moment that comes along and the timing is right.
— Galen Druke, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023 -
The next time that virus comes along, the microbe can use those sequences to create the guide RNAs.
— Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024 -
The readiness with which both boys came along with me still astounds.
— Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2024 -
But to have a funny movie come along that’s just fun to watch is such a relief.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024 -
Friends also ask me to come along with them to visit homes.
— Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023 -
That kind of energy wasn’t there and then this guy came along.
— Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023 -
But sometimes a poll comes along and crystallizes one of the big ones.
— Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 26 June 2024 -
Tom came along, too, and started working out of a guesthouse in the back yard.
— Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2023 -
And then Hip-Hop comes along and suddenly turns the table and gives us a voice.
— Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 28 June 2024 -
There were also the angels who came along at the right time to help us on this sojourn.
— Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024 -
In the ninth episode of the third season, Kourtney asks Kylie to do her makeup, and Khloé comes along to hang out.
— Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 20 July 2023 -
One of the best things about the start to a new year is all the planning, plotting, and daydreaming that comes along with it.
— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2024 -
Then a guy like David Lee Roth comes along and his voice is different.
— Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 28 July 2023 -
If people like Hugh Grant are going to come along and push us out, what’s next?
— Ron Charles, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023 -
The District snagged its fourth day at or above 90 this year, three of which have come along since Thursday.
— Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 17 June 2024 -
In a year where so many lamented the creative downfall of rap, Ganger came along to prove all of them wrong.
— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2023 -
The Guardians have come along way in the last five years, placing 5th at Open Class finals on Tuesday.
— Jackson Weimer, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022 -
June was already a record-breaking month for the world’s oceans, and then July came along and topped it.
— Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2023 -
But there’s no denying the cachet that comes along with a star, not to mention the business.
— Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2024
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