comes on

present tense third-person singular of come on

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for comes on
Verb
  • There is a road closure at West 135th Street and US-69 South.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Once there is a final design, the city will be able to seek grants and other funding for the project.
    Amir Mahmoud, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The elevator stops at each floor and a new ghostly guest arrives offering some insight into Will’s plan.
    Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, arrives at court as lawyers push to persuade the judge overseeing his fraud case not to jail him ahead of trial, at a courthouse in New York, August 11, 2023.
    Dawn Giel,Dan Mangan, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Mamdani’s vision of an equitable, affordable urbanity emerges as a challenge to this long history of abandonment and exclusion.
    Fahad Zuberi, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Also effective is the picture that gradually emerges of the two parents at the center of this whole thing.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • That stereotype still exists today.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In theory, this track exists in perpetuity.
    Raj Dhiman, Sourcing Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • In Brazil, nearly 90% of electricity now comes from clean energy sources, enabling communities from São Paulo to small towns in the Amazon to power their daily lives with renewables.
    Alexis Abramson, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Pop culture is filled with images of Rio de Janeiro, and while the Cidade Maravilhosa (Marvelous City) certainly lives up to its name, movies and song lyrics rarely capture the real reasons why.
    Aaron Randolph, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Public space is where democracy breathes.
    Fahad Zuberi, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The special effects retain their otherworldly magic more than 100 years later, particularly in the scene where Rabbi Loew (Albert Steinruck) breathes life into the golem.
    Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Comes on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comes%20on. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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