come by
verb
came by; come by; coming by; comes by
: to get possession of : acquire
a good job is hard to come by
: to make a visit
came by after dinner
Examples of come by in a Sentence
come by after work and I'll give you some clothes for the rummage sale
a literary award like that isn't easy to come by
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La said outreach workers and police did come by, yet shelter was scarce.
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Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Advocacy organizations and programs like Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries have helped parents reconnect with long-missing children, but that level of attention can be hard to come by for family abductions.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
Before Monday’s game against Dallas, the Nets were in the midst of a 2-8 stretch with each loss coming by single digits.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025
With funding harder to come by, Woestehoff wound down PURE in 2014.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
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Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Advocacy organizations and programs like Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries have helped parents reconnect with long-missing children, but that level of attention can be hard to come by for family abductions.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
Before Monday’s game against Dallas, the Nets were in the midst of a 2-8 stretch with each loss coming by single digits.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025
With funding harder to come by, Woestehoff wound down PURE in 2014.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for come by
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“Come by.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20by. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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