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Example sentences for "came along"

  • We came along, and Boston inner and outer harbor crowded with vessels, steamers and sail, waiting for it to moderate so they c'd put out.

  • Maurice came down the steps of Mrs. Arkell's boarding-house as I came along, and joined me on the sidewalk.

  • Two holes in her deck where her spars ought to be," he was saying when I came along.

  • Rattray, the medico here, is in hospital himself, undergoing an operation for appendicitis, so I came along.

  • A kingfisher was sitting on it, when we came along, and flew off with a screech.

  • We certainly noticed a bunch of queer growths in the woods as we came along, though it's hardly likely any of us will ever set eyes on them again.

  • I think I remember seeing this place before as we came along.

  • Lundholm, muffled in a bear skin, came along in a sleigh, and unwrapping his face called out to Ole Bull’s driver to stop.

  • No; I thought of it as I came along; but didn't get one, thinking you mightn't be ready.

  • I was all impatience, as I came along, to tell her.

  • He came along with us to find a suitable place, and one was fixed on, but I do not like it.

  • As I came along a passage a cupboard door flew open and scores of dishes fell out with a crash.

  • Just then there was a knock down stairs, and Mr. Rabbit came in carrying a large bunch of early flowers that he had gathered as he came along, and dressed in his new spring suit.

  • While I was gone the colonel decided to camp for the night in a grove near the road, and went there thinking to see me when I came along.

  • An Irishman on one of the posts asked me if he should halt a pig if he came along, and I repeated the order to "halt everything.

  • We started at daybreak and had gone perhaps twenty miles, when we overtook General Smith's army, which was stopping every boat that came along, until enough were had to carry his army.

  • I came along," she said to Honora, as she gave her hand-bag to a footman.

  • And it was like that when--when he came along --I didn't do what I thought I was going to do.

  • I was wishing as I came along I could afford to buy it at once, it struck so cold coming out of our place; and you had actually bought it for me all the time!

  • Pretty ragged, to tell the truth," replied the fat boy, who was puffing as he came along.

  • You see Davy, Allan here, and myself made a note of that same spring the other day, when we came along on horseback, spying out the lay of the land.

  • The fog prevented me from seeing much of the fields as I came along yesterday; but the fields of Swedish Turnips that I did see were good; pretty good; though not clean and neat like those in Norfolk.

  • Several friends gathered about the mayor, and Father Dunn, a Catholic priest, came along to assist him.

  • On arriving at the roadway, a company of one hundred and fifty or two hundred, who had been driving the men from the shops, and beating and maltreating them, came along, and the leader asked who that was.

  • But after a time I spoke of the rain, and told him that I thought that I had heard a wildcat as I came along, which was a lie, for I had heard nothing save the wind and the rain falling on the dead leaves.

  • I turned away, and walked up the road, and he came along after me on his horse.

  • Yes, and I am very glad that I didn't meet one of those fellows as I came along.

  • Here's the big rose-bush she was sitting under, the last time I came along.

  • How foolish I was not to mark the trees as I came along!

  • I reckon therefore that they just vamoosed ahead a bit and were ready with that big rock when we came along.

  • But in that case I should think that they would have had the rock already there before we came along.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "came along" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boiled potatoes; came aboard; came across; came again; came alongside; came before; came first; came forth; came forth from the; came forward; came from; came here; came hither; came home; came nearer; came round; came running; came straight; came suddenly; came they; came unto; camera obscura; did not take long; endless screw; giving utterance; honourable gentleman