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Example sentences for "time came"

  • By 1474 Negroes were numerous in Spain, and special interest attaches to Juan de Valladolid, probably the first of many Negroes who in time came to have influence and power over their people under the authority of a greater state.

  • He had one favorite tune to which he had fitted words of his own, and at the end of each verse he made a ludicrous step which in time came to be known as "rocking the heel.

  • From time to time came to the presiding officer the request, "Don't let her speak; it will ruin us.

  • We labored along and in time came to another small place called Hamilton's Diggings where some lead mines were being worked.

  • We followed along the road and in time came to another village and Mission called Santa Barbara.

  • At home, the afternoon wore away, tea-time came; nurse ran down from the nursery to the dining-room to fetch her two little charges.

  • He got on very well that morning until the time came for "dictation," and then poor Johnnie's troubles began.

  • However, I concealed my real thoughts, spent the night in a calm and composed manner, and in course of time came here, to see if by any chance she lived in this town.

  • When bed-time came, the giant's daughter told the prince that they must fly, or the giant would kill him.

  • Dinner-time came, and the captain whistled for Jacko, but contrary to all customs no Jacko came.

  • But the leader had selected his party well, and not a sound was made till the proper time came.

  • Every night and every morning she counted the days that must pass before he should be set free to go to his own house; and she rejoiced and suffered beforehand, as he must rejoice and suffer when that time came.

  • Gunilla went, dinner-time came, and with it the guests and the Judge, who had spent the whole morning in the business of his own office, out of the house.

  • Her husband's tea-time came; he had such delight in coming home at this hour to find his wife and his children all assembled round the tea-table in the family room.

  • Jove, who in course of time came to be represented as a male Creator, brought her forth from his head.

  • It is perhaps unnecessary to add that this monad trinity is the Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer with their great parent, the Mother of the Gods, which in process of time came to be regarded as male.

  • Breakfast-time came, and with order meet the abbot and the rest were regaled with good viands and good wines, Ghino still suffering not the abbot to know who he was.

  • So there was nothing better to do than just wait till the right time came.

  • When tea-time came, Philip hesitated about accepting Mrs Inglis's invitation to remain.

  • Mr Inglis had taken more cold, at least his cough was worse, and he stayed up-stairs in his study, and David was glad when the time came that he could stay there too.

  • But a time came--mind me, a time always does come.

  • A time came when, avoid collision with his former friend as he might, Farfrae was compelled, in sheer self-defence, to close with Henchard in mortal commercial combat.

  • More blunders escaped her when dinner-time came; the admiral's criticisms on her waiting at table were sharper than ever.

  • Bed-time came again, and found her placed between the two alternatives of trusting to the doubtful chances of the next morning, or of trying the keys boldly in the dead of night.

  • At last the lagging hours reached their end, and bed-time came.

  • When breakfast-time came (on Thursday morning), we were surprised to find a strange letter on the table.

  • This grew up, as all law grows, by enacted laws and decisions of the courts, and in time came to be an enormous body of law.

  • It stood for church control of all educational efforts, resented state interference, was dominated only by church purposes, and in time came to be a serious obstacle in the way of rational state school organization and control.

  • Bed-time came; and she would have been glad of it, but that all the time she was going to sleep there was the Lord Chancellor to think of, and the uncle and aunt with the statue faces dragging her before him.

  • Bed-time came at last--horrible bed-time, with all its terrors!

  • And when bed-time came, she learnt more of the "consequences of her actions.

  • After a time came a light, and Josephine moving about quietly, and putting away the clothes that had been left on the floor.

  • Breakfast-time came at last, and this morning the porridge was not burnt; the quality was eatable, the quantity small.

  • He does not care for that: when my time came to die, he would resign me, in all serenity and sanctity, to the God who gave me.

  • Indeed it was: I had as good a right to die when my time came as he had: but I should bide that time, and not be hurried away in a suttee.

  • When bed-time came, Wise posted five sentries, who were to be relieved after four hours' duty, and went to the hut set aside for him with his mind at ease.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "time came" 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:
    are led; ashy gray; forms part; great monarch; know whar; local banks; long voyage; school teachers; single soul; time after; time before; time come; time coming; time enough; time goes; time like; time must; time presses; time should; time the; time when; times gone; times like; times more; times past; times when