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
• 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
• In that procedure, surgeons had incidentally come upon another worm, which was 18 cm (7 inches).
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 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