How to Use come/crawl out of the woodwork in a Sentence

come/crawl out of the woodwork

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• There could be even more that come out of the woodwork over the course of the season.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 11 May 2022
• Don't be surprised if people seem to come out of the woodwork to respond.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• Kendrick called him a colonizer and haters have come out of the woodwork to bring him down.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 12 June 2024
• In such cases, trademark squatters tend to come out of the woodwork.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• Maybe some of those crackpots have come out of the woodwork to bash this series on ratings sites.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 17 June 2022
• Since our first story ran, a lot of people who have known Santos have come out of the woodwork.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Moo Deng may have lost some fans, but plenty of others have come out of the woodwork to come to her rescue.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
• But like with my English, sometimes when my guard is down, elements of my childhood come out of the woodwork.
  — Clarissa Wei, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• But eventually, a ruggedly handsome gentleman will come out of the woodwork and sweep her off her feet.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
• And now, because of streaming or the just evolution of taste, there’s other songs that have come out of the woodwork that people like more.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
• At this point, a new Porsche 911 restomod offering seems to come out of the woodwork nearly daily.
  — Christian Gilbertsen, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2024
• For Sombra to come out of the woodwork, Decay may need to take the reins on Overwatch’s cyborg ninja.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 2 July 2020
• Worse yet, some are focused on all the problems that their windfall has brought them, as friends and family come out of the woodwork, expecting to share in the good fortune.
  — William Von Hippel, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2019
• The memes have come out of the woodwork, comparing the statue to Apollo Creed's trainer and Morpheus.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2024
• As open as Caudill is with her followers, the cost of sharing little pieces of her life online is that trolls and haters sometimes come out of the woodwork to comment on her videos.
  — Allure, 15 Apr. 2022
• Anyone, anywhere, can be your collaborator—and if your project is popular online, people can come out of the woodwork with fixes and new ideas.
  — Mike Pearl, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
• Thoughts will move a lot faster, conversations will be significant and ideas will come out of the woodwork during this Mercury Cazimi.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 May 2025
• And with an ongoing investigation and potential trial, others involved in the conspiracy are bound to come out of the woodwork.
  — Liz Dufour, The Enquirer, 26 Oct. 2020
• That plot is so close to reality — or the movie’s catawampus version of reality — that actual rogue agents come out of the woodwork to eliminate Elly.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• One issue was surely that Democratic sources were then willing to come out of the woodwork to talk about their own experiences with, or lack of unfiltered access to, Biden.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 30 May 2025
• In these narratives, a common denominator is the idea that at any moment, government ‘thugs’ will come out of the woodwork and, essentially, throw everyone into cages.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2021
• Recently, Tinder and Fortnite, among other developers, have come out of the woodwork to take on the market dynamics of the App Store.
  — Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• Since the Binance deal fell apart and FTX filed for bankruptcy, crypto startups have come out of the woodwork, disclosing that their entire treasuries were held on the exchange.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
• The lawmaker said if polling begins to show members slipping in key swing districts with Biden at the top of the ticket, putting the House in jeopardy, more Democrats may come out of the woodwork to urge the president to drop out of the race.
  — Mike Lillis, The Hill, 9 July 2024
• As the time ahead of Election Day dwindles, celebrities, entrepreneurs, and influential businesspeople have come out of the woodwork to throw their support behind one of the presidential candidates.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
• The back-and-forth rallies reflect a political divide that seems poised to become more pronounced in The Villages as its Democrats come out of the woodwork, re-energized by Harris’s entry to the race.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• In fact, the lofty position Blanco occupies, acquired through inheritance rather than through his own efforts, leaves him vulnerable to strong opposition, which all come out of the woodwork simultaneously at the worst possible time.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 14 Dec. 2021
• Every year, a number of films come out of the woodwork to challenge for industry awards and year-end recognition, and in 2021, Michael Sarnoski’s Pig was perhaps the ultimate example of this trajectory.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2024