How to Use come by in a Sentence

come by

verb
  • And this doesn't come by a vote.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Runs were hard to come by for both teams.
    — Mukala Kabongo, Boston Herald, 14 June 2026
  • But deals have been hard to come by this spring.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 11 June 2026
  • The way that game went, runs were tough to come by.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Each win came by 19 points or more.
    — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Thank you so much for coming by.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
  • But treatment is hard to come by.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 19 June 2026
  • Plus street parking is easy to come by.
    — Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Plus street parking is easy to come by.
    — Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But tickets might be hard to come by.
    — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But those issues were hard to come by.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Their two losses have each come by one point.
    — Kristian Winfield, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Their two losses have each come by one point.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Most of the stoppages came by way of tap out.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • These are things in our world right now that are very hard to come by.
    — Lorena O’Neil, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Neighbors come by on their walks or bring their kids.
    — Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2025
  • But free parking around there is hard to come by.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2026
  • From there offense was hard to come by for both clubs.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Runs were hard to come by for both teams through the first half of the game.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 19 May 2026
  • Money was rarely spent, and trades were hard to come by.
    — James Boyd, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The role on Non è la Rai came by chance.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Speaking of satire, a true satire is kind of hard to come by.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The report comes by way of the board of trustees of the fund.
    — Mason Leib, ABC News, 11 June 2026
  • Five-on-five goal scoring is so hard to come by right now.
    — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 9 May 2026
  • Every week a trash truck comes by to take our trash to the dump.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The mobile dog groomer comes by and cuts the dog’s nails for us.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Even then, tests aren’t easy to come by for health care workers.
    — Orly Nadell Farber, STAT, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Over the years, and across an ocean, facts have been hard to come by in this case.
    — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • That and the fact that parking in the dense city is so hard to come by.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
  • And call you up and come by and still have sleepovers and things like that?
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024

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