comes over

present tense third-person singular of come over

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of comes over Open a window before company comes over Before guests arrive, most people wipe down the counters. Angela Haupt, Time, 27 July 2026 Wicked Wonderland comes over a decade after the original trilogy with Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Cameron Boyce and Booboo Stewart arrived on the Disney Channel in 2015. Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026 The latest escalation comes over a battle for the Strait of Hormuz. Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 15 July 2026 The hire comes over a year after former President Marlene Tromp took a new job at the University of Vermont and left the university. Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 1 July 2026 So Mary Travers comes over with Peter. Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026 Ben Johns comes over to the right side to hit a dink shot against Anna Bright and Hayden Patriquine in the 2026 PPA Carvana Mesa Cup finals match of the Pro Mixed Doubles Division at Arizona Athletic Grounds on February 22, 2026 in Mesa, Arizona. Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 5 June 2026 But the message comes over the course of several years, not a couple minutes of gunfire. Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026 The report comes over a year after Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that the company would do away with its fact-check program and stop using automation to detect and remove hate speech. Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comes over
Verb
  • The combination cargo and cruise ship Aranui V is a frequent visitor on its sailings from Tahiti, while the luxurious Paul Gauguin also periodically visits from Tahiti.
    Scott Laird, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026
  • When Odysseus and Penelope’s son, Telemachus (Tom Holland), visits Sparta for information about his father, he’s invited to sit with Menelaus during a wedding feast for his and Helen’s daughter.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • Trailing 9-6, the Reds scored 10 runs in the fifth inning to take a seven-run lead.
    Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Houston starter Cristian Javier (1-2) yielded seven hits and three runs in six innings.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Expansion onto the mainstream scene likely comes by way of popular music, movies, and social media, which have made African-American language visible to young people of other backgrounds.
    Valerie Fridland, Time, 22 July 2026
  • The latest announcement comes by way of a manual fix, deep joy, for the sync delay issues that have impacted users of both client and server platforms.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • Not one player in the unit caught a deep pass during training camp’s first week, and the unit was plagued by drops in the first three practices.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • The numbers across the city were a setback for Bass, who has made homelessness one of her signature issues and previously touted two straight years of drops in street homelessness.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • There were a few errant passes by Craig and Schobel, but the biggest problem was drops by the wide receivers.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2026
  • However, once heated, its electrical resistance drops by four orders of magnitude, turning it into a shield.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 May 2026

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“Comes over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comes%20over. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

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