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Example sentences for "come home"

  • I went upstairs to Carrie, who was changing her dress, and told her I had persuaded Mr. Franching to come home.

  • My boy in the same office as myself--we can go down together by the 'bus, come home together, and who knows but in the course of time he may take great interest in our little home.

  • So bad at the office, had to get leave to come home.

  • I ventured to ask him to come home to meat-tea, and take pot-luck.

  • Lately, they very often wouldn't laugh, and he used to come home despairing.

  • That done, Bitzer was dismissed to town with instructions to recommend Tom to come home by the mail- train.

  • Spanish Johnny's come home again, all used up.

  • Well, sometimes I've come home as I did the other night when you first saw me, so full of bitterness that it was as if my mind were full of daggers.

  • He told her that, since she felt so, he thought they might ask Thea to come home.

  • We used to come home of an evening loaded so as you could not see us, for all that it was so light to carry.

  • All he bade me say was, 'Tell mother I'm in trouble, and can't come home tonight.

  • I did think on't; but you had na come home then.

  • She remembered Bertram's face when he had seen her, and what he had said when she begged him to come home.

  • Could she tell him whether his friend Edward Dodd was likely to come home soon?

  • You know my fears; you must be father and mother to that poor child till I come home--Your sad mother, "LUCY DODD.

  • Alfred bit his lip, had a wrestle with the old Adam; and said gently, "Come home with me, sir.

  • So home to dinner, where Balty's wife is come to town; she come last night and lay at my house, but being weary was gone to bed before I come home, and so I saw her not before.

  • Come home, met with order of Commissioners of Accounts, which put together with the rest vexed me, and so home to supper and to bed.

  • He had one of his fits of temper in town one day, when he was hitching up to come home, and Leonard Dawson saw him beat one of our horses with the neck-yoke.

  • You can see she's made her mind up not to come home.

  • He didn't come home as often as he might.

  • He was the first soldier who had come home, and some of the townspeople had driven down to see him arrive in his uniform.

  • If all the days were as long as this, we'd be very, very old when father and mother come home.

  • I can scarcely wait for Eloise to come home.

  • When you were employed in the Faroe fishing, did you get cash from the merchant in the course of season, when you happened to come home, whenever you wanted it?

  • I had not the book with me when I received the goods from him; but I generally mark my account after I come home, or a little time after I get to my own house.

  • We are quite prepared to run all that risk against a bad fishing, and we will pay them the balance in cash at any moment they choose after they come home.

  • After that I want you to come home with me and transact business.

  • Come home with me," said the woman; "I will take care of you.

  • Have you heard, my dear, when the young lady is to come home?

  • You've chose a bad night to come home in, old man," she answered.

  • Why did he come home only at half-past five, when his office actually closed at three o'clock?

  • I shall be miserable," he thought, "the day when she does not come home; and yet it would be the very best thing that could happen for me.

  • They will, no doubt, come home to dinner," replied Mlle.

  • That is true," said Alison, "he held out till Edward refused to come home, and then nothing would make him listen to a word on his behalf.

  • They've been looking all over for you, everywhere, and wishing you'd come home.

  • I'd a come home before, only he wouldn't let me come.

  • As to her father, that is a disadvantage; but, from what I hear, he is never likely to come home; and that is not to be weighed against what she is herself.

  • Never had he so truly known what it was to come home as when he mounted the stairs, with steps unlike his usual measured tread, and beheld his son's look of animated welcome, and eager, outstretched hands.

  • I thus made it impossible for her to count the hours, and to try to remember, from her indistinct reminiscences, at what time he used to come home formerly.

  • Soon he ceased to come home regularly of nights; he spent them with women at the casino at Royat and did not come home until daybreak.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "come 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:
    come alongside; come among; come and; come back; come before; come down; come fill; come hither; come near; come nigh; come round; come short; come thither; come together; come unto; come upon; come where; comes about; comes forth; comes from; general conceptions; gentle sleep; love one; never took; other kings; side corner