How to Use come across as in a Sentence

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• While the catcher might come across as boring, his skill and loyalty have him on a path to stardom.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• Your letter does not come across as being from someone ignorant.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2022
• Their emotions or interactions may also come across as fake or shallow.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 10 Nov. 2022
• Jones, though, does not come across as someone in need of positive reinforcement.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
• Or some members might not feel confident in what is the right way to come across as confident and how to shape the perfect profile.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
• Some of them, like Dionne Warwick on Twitter, have mastered it — others can come across as cringe.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
• The new interns are underdogs who come across as a modern, scrappier version of the original group.
  — Ashley Bissette Sumerel, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2023
• For a sport that has long battled traditionalism in its effort to attract younger fans, these innovations may come across as avant-garde.
  — Noah Gittell, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022
• Those postgame sessions sometimes come across as the equivalent of an upraised middle finger to his media inquisitors.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
• This can put a strain on your relationship, as your partner can come across as needy, demanding, or disrespectful of your personal space.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• At candidate forums in the early stages of the runoff, Vallas, who has a short fuse, tried to come across as calm and reassuring, even chummy.
  — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2023
• But comparisons like this tend to come across as simplistic and presumptuous – sometimes even insulting.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• His brothers come across as colorful characters whose ribbing went a long way toward keeping Felton grounded.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022
• For many American viewers, their story will come across as an exuberant anti-colonialist tall tale.
  — Simon Abrams, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
• When considered in isolation, for example, a pull system for task assignment might come across as fiddly and eccentric.
  — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
• Being closeted at work could come across as being unfriendly or uninterested.
  — Karen Pavlin, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• Such religiosity can come across as pious and performative when delivered from the pulpit.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• This ageless sentimentality might come across as profound to naïve viewers who have grown accustomed to its repetition.
  — Armond White, National Review, 29 Mar. 2023
• Haley’s gift is to come across as a moderate while espousing immoderate views and surrounding herself with extremists.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2023
• Winningly, the film employs a real black bear in the shooting—a reportedly placid creature made, via editing and music, to come across as properly terrifying.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 31 Oct. 2022
• In order for Nelly to come across as authentically as possible, Kalukango had quite a bit of input in her development.
  — Veronica Wells, Essence, 10 June 2022
• Someone with too much warmth and not enough competence can come across as friendly but not always impressive; heavy competence without much warmth is viewed as intelligent but cold and highly suspicious.
  — Amy Blaschka, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• Those who move this way might come across as emotionally guarded, steering away from emotional conversations and vulnerability.
  — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023
• But more often than not, responses to questions—particularly those that may reflect on someone’s judgment, decisions, or intentions––come across as defensive.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• And men’s anxiety and depression often come across as anger or irritability rather than worry and sadness, so conditions that can raise the risk of suicide can go undiagnosed and untreated.
  — Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• With its mix of jokes and strange anecdotes, Taylor Offer’s LinkedIn page doesn’t immediately come across as a place to get valuable career advice or deep business insights.
  — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
• But if there are no collective possibilities for his characters, no solidarity to be found in organizing, that too can make his novel come across as powerfully contemporary.
  — Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
• My mother—who fled the segregated South at sixteen, has no Southern accent, and seems downright Yankee in her industriousness and her bearing—does not come across as Southern.
  — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• In a Catch-22 practice, such people were rarely nominated, because the clubs’ reputations discouraged members from suggesting candidates who would surely be rejected, and members didn’t want to come across as rabble rousers.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Although Nelson shows an interest in deconstructing his characters’ love lives, with a particular interest in exploring interracial relationships, the women rarely come across as more than an afterthought.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023