come of
Britishverb
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to be descended from
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to result from
nothing came of his experiments
Example Sentences
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No good can come of it, if you ask me.
From Literature
I never saw anything good come of magic in the end, you know.
From Literature
“I’m off to the wedding. Methinks I shall fetch a bit of gold today. Wouldn’t that be something? Be good and rest, and I shall bring you back a coin made by your very own queen. Maybe some good will come of it. There’s bread and more pies, dear. Tuck in and eat, eat, eat! I hate to see such skinny bones on a growing boy.”
From Literature
But Lubitsch envisioned, as no one else did, what might come of marrying sound films with a modified form of operetta.
We hear about joint defense procurement, but then we have been hearing this kind of thing for 50 years, and nothing has come of it.
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