How to Use come upon in a Sentence

come upon

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• The reader who reaches the epilogue and comes upon the girl with the scar is meant to recognize her.
  — Literary Hub, 14 July 2026
• After the attack, the second dog fled the area and then later came upon another resident nearby.
  — Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
• After the attack, the second dog fled and came upon another resident nearby.
  — Steven Yablonski, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
• Thirty years ago a teenage boy, traveling abroad and without parents for the first time, came upon a scene of staggering destruction.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
• One spring, Morgan visited a forest outside London and came upon two dead female toads in a pond.
  — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026
• Set the scene On the second and last morning of my weekend at Winvian, a soft snow came upon the place and landed in a thin blanket.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
• The filmmaker unexpectedly came upon the bridge where her mother died and decided to confront this place with her camera.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
• The season ends with Rhaenyra coming upon Helaena’s vacant quarters, while Team Green’s queen herself lies on the ground below, impaled on spikes.
  — Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• In that procedure, surgeons had incidentally come upon another worm, which was 18 cm (7 inches).
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
• The 2026 total solar eclipse finally came upon us, marking the first total solar eclipse visible from parts of mainland Europe in almost three decades.
  — Claire Cameron & Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
• According to the statement, officers responded to the residence after Wolfson’s grandmother came upon a gruesome scene with the furniture in disarray and blood everywhere.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
• All that intense drama unfolded after Balogun’s ejection, which came upon a replay review (Video Assistant Referee).
  — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
• When Powers — posting as Falk — came upon the Crystal River Learning Academy’s Facebook page and saw people from the community liking the page and supporting Salute, she was stunned.
  — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 16 July 2026
• Then, in a famous scene where Willis as McClane comes upon Gruber, Rickman suggested that Gruber imitate an American accent to try and fool Willis/McClane.
  — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026