come around

verb

came around; come around; coming around; comes around

Examples of come around in a Sentence

she came around surprisingly quickly after falling off the horse
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Those opportunities to get a stop, to seal the game, don't come around too often. Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, the light is the train coming around the other end. Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025 Mighty Bay has tears in his eyes from laughing so hard at the funky drum machine beats of Keith LeBlanc’s Major Malfunction, coming around to it by the final track. Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2025 Nearly a dozen kids come around the block, some running and others riding their bikes. Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for come around

Word History

First Known Use

1773, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of come around was in 1773

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“Come around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20around. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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