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Example sentences for "would come"

  • Lies and hatred, those violent things of life, would come to seem quite natural, in the violence of his love.

  • Yesterday she had not known this would come; and now she could not guess at to-morrow!

  • Not quite--but the way to do it would come to him.

  • What he would come to see in time God only knew!

  • He did not expect that he could ever return with that "pocketful of rocks" which he used to talk so much about; but, if he would come, he for one was ready to pledge himself that he should never starve in the city of Bridgeport.

  • In the winter of 1898 his grandfather offered to him, rent free, his carriage-house, which was situated on the main street, if he would come back to Bethel.

  • They asked him all sorts of questions about America, the Museum and other shows, and expressed the hope that he would come out of his troubles all right.

  • A few weeks afterward, he wrote to Clark that if he would come to his office he was anxious to consult him on a matter of great importance.

  • Ever since you've been here I thought it would come.

  • He had hoped Madame Merle would be there, but she was not in sight; perhaps she was in one of the other rooms or would come later.

  • One said if I would come up to his office he would give me fifteen feet; another said he would add fifteen; the third said he would do the same.

  • I had engaged briefly in the study of blacksmithing, but wasted so much time trying to fix the bellows so that it would blow itself, that the master turned me adrift in disgrace, and told me I would come to no good.

  • In passing through London, he would come to Cadogan-place, and it was decided that he should arrive in time to go with the baby to church on the Tuesday, and proceed the next morning.

  • He would come in shivering, and be provoked to find her sitting by the smallest of fires; till she learnt that their estimate of heat was so different, that the only safety was in keeping the room like an oven.

  • By this movement I hoped General Slocum would hold Johnston's army facing west, while I would come on his rear from the east.

  • Nothing of interest happened at Raleigh till the evening of April 23d, when Major Hitchcock reported by telegraph his return to Morehead City, and that he would come up by rail during the night.

  • I sent back orders for him to fight defensively to save time, and that I would come up with reenforcements from the direction of Cog's Bridge, by the road which we had reached near Falling-Creek Church.

  • Onund said he would come, and they parted with great friendship.

  • Grettir said he would come willingly, and they both went together to the foot of the Balljokull, where Hallmund had a large cave.

  • The goodwife is at home with her daughter, and if I had any grudge to repay, I would come just as you do, for there is everything here which you want, ale to drink and other delights.

  • She was vaguely feeling that she would come in contact with the great owners, that her work would be where grave, stylishly dressed men occasionally look on.

  • He would come out as far as Peoria Street and wait for her.

  • It would come infrequently--when something else did not interfere, when the pleasant side was not too apparent, when Drouet was not there.

  • You knew I would come: of course you did.

  • And I told her outright, having worked myself up by my own conversation, that she was bound to consult her guardian, and that without his knowledge, I would come no more to see her.

  • Leaving word that I would come again to inquire for her, and fetch Kickums home, so soon as the harvest permitted me, I gave directions about the horse, and striding away from the ancient town, was soon upon the moorlands.

  • He hesitated a moment, then said he would come as soon as he had gone below to bring up his papers.

  • It was a dreadful prayer, an' I didn't know how true it would come.

  • I told him to say to the governor that I would come on shore in the morning and see him, and land my cargo at the same time.

  • So long as I fought the Achaeans Hector suffered not the battle range far from the city walls; he would come to the Scaean gates and to the oak tree, but no further.

  • Jove would instantly leave the Trojans and Achaeans to themselves; he would come to Olympus to punish us, and would grip us up one after another, guilty or not guilty.

  • The slope was so sheer that if one of the four figures lost footing it would come crashing to her very feet.

  • Not that she had the slightest hope that he would come, but she watched him curiously, almost as if he were a stranger, to see how he would answer.

  • I have waited for a call to go to work--I knew it would come.

  • Some people are malicious enough to think that if the devil were set at liberty and told to confine himself to Nevada Territory, that he would come here--and look sadly around, awhile, and then get homesick and go back to hell again.

  • Clemens had no desire to refuse; he sent word that he would come, and followed it with a characteristic line.

  • If I had the money, I would come to St. Louis now, while the river is open; but within the last two or three weeks I have spent about thirty dollars for clothing, so I suppose I shall remain where I am.

  • Send up one of the menservants, and he would come down at a moment's warning.

  • I never thought he would come to good, when I heard him attempting to sneer at an unoffending city so respectable as Boston.

  • It was not likely that the boy would come to shore alive if it did.

  • She said she was sure I would come back by myself.

  • Canano shook me by the hand, and told me he expected me and the marquis to dinner every day, and I promised we would come at the earliest opportunity.

  • I promised I would come, but the countess said she could not be of the party.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would come" 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:
    bold front; would advise; would also; would answer; would cause; would come; would enable; would form; would give; would have been very; would keep; would kill; would laugh; would listen; would meet; would needs; would permit; would probably; would result; would return; would seem; would soon; would start; would succeed; would suffice; would work