come to pass
Speech parts
1. come to pass - Verb
2. come to pass - Phrase
Meaning
come to pass (third-person singular simple present comes to pass, present participle coming to pass, simple past came to pass, past participle come to pass)
To happen; to occur.
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Examples
Say not 'a small event' Why 'small' Costs it more pain that this ye call A 'great event' should come to pass From that Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed.
Things we do not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?
Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.
Better one good thing that is, rather than two good things that were, or three good things that might never come to pass.