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Example sentences for "came home"

  • When he came home in the middle of the night, he did not dare to wake her.

  • This was the time when Charles came home.

  • When he came home, the lad was spoilt as if he were a prince.

  • The next day when he came home he looked at her shyly, and at last could no longer keep back the words.

  • He came home late--at ten o'clock, at midnight sometimes.

  • Poor thing, it was so rarely now that he came home to dinner, that a visit from him was regarded by her in the light of a treat.

  • When he came home to tea he found Kitty was as joyous and full of life as ever, in spite of the long hot afternoon and the restless energy with which she had been running about.

  • The President answered from a window with rather unusual dignity and effect, and we came home.

  • On the night of April sixth, Lincoln's signatures to the unread despatches of the first of April, came home to roost.

  • If he had known what was good for him he would have been clever enough to ignore the practical presentation of his case made half an hour or so earlier.

  • No one seems to pretend that he is anything but extremely nice himself, notwithstanding his disadvantages.

  • Lady Joan, you're a looker--you're a beaut from Beautville.

  • You just keep your hair on, and let me do my own valeting, and you'll see I'll fix it for you somehow.

  • But it came home to her that Jem had once said "What's the matter?

  • When he came home at night it became the custom to ask him questions as to the bits of luck which befell him.

  • Grandmother knew a great deal before we came home," said Little Ann.

  • I had to put it all down when I came home," she said.

  • But it was not changed when he came home; and Ethel, though sorely disappointed, was convinced by her own sense as well as by Richard's prudence, that interference was dangerous.

  • Why, if I had been at Auckland, would you have cried till I came home?

  • And your husband didn’t mention anything to you when he came home?

  • Then after he had murdered the boy he came home to her.

  • Yes, I noticed it at our door as I came home.

  • After the second day he came home half-laughing.

  • They were to sleep at Biston, and I saw nothing of them the next day till Eustace came home alone, only just in time for a late dinner, and growled out rather crossly that Harold had chosen to walk home, and not to be waited for.

  • Harold, who was still up when we came home, received the tidings equably, only saying he would go down to Yolland the first thing in the morning and get things made tidy.

  • He was never too tired when he came home at night to take Teddy into his lap, and murmur long tales of giants and fairies.

  • Martie, kissing Teddy as a preliminary to her delayed breakfast, came home to discuss the order of events.

  • Then I came home, shabby and sad and poor, and my father and sister took me in.

  • I came home at noon having won a score of louis.

  • I came home at noon, and Don Diego dined with me; his daughter did not appear till the dessert.

  • I came home at ten o'clock, and found Mercy in bed as I had done the night before.

  • If ever retribution came home to woman, it came home in that hour to Lady Isabel.

  • Since the very night Lady Isabel came home here, your wife, she had been taunted with the cost she has brought to East Lynne and to you.

  • My father used to go out to shoot on fine evenings after office, or to his duties as secretary to the library, and so Afy was generally all alone until I came home at nine o'clock; and was free to flirt with her beaux.

  • He also foretold that Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, should fail of his purpose against Egypt, and that when he came home he should perish by the sword.

  • After a long absence, he came home on a visit.

  • Well, Sir, Miss Margaret's been very much altered, ever since that night when she came home alone, and frightened us so.

  • Glancing up at me over the glass of lemonade I had given her she went on: "Why haven't you been to see me since I came home?

  • And when we came home he kept on in business--he still had his father's affairs to look after--but he had a little workroom at the top of the house where he used to go in the afternoon .

  • Ephraim, though he knew of it, did not speak of it when he came home to his dinner; Mr. Graves had called, and informed her of the meeting in the town hall that night.

  • One evening I came home from a long talk with Nancy that had left us both wrought up, and I had entered the library before I heard voices.

  • When I came home I thought it might amuse me to bully a few quarter sections out of the Ericsons; but I've almost decided I can get more fun for my money somewhere else.

  • He approached it tonight with the nerveless sense Of defeat, the hopeless feeling of sinking back forever into ugliness and commonness that he had always had when he came home.

  • When I came home to Sandtown at Christmas time, we skated out to our island and talked over the whole project of the Enchanted Bluff, renewing our resolution to find it.

  • I came home to see how you were getting on with Olaf.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "came home" 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:
    came aboard; came abreast; came across; came along; came alongside; came and; came ashore; came away; came before; came close; came face; came here; came home; came into; came nearer; came the; came they; came upon; came vnto; came west; hill called; liberal supply; little west; went myself; when made; wild elephant