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COME ALONG
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Develop in a positive way
Example:
Plans are shaping up
Synonyms:
advance; come along; come on; get along; get on; progress; shape up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come along" is one way to...):
develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come along"):
climb (improve one's social status)
leapfrog (progress by large jumps instead of small increments)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Come into being or existence, or appear on the scene
Example:
Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago
Synonyms:
appear; come along
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come along"):
gleam (appear briefly)
fulminate (come on suddenly and intensely)
occur (to be found to exist)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
Now, then, come along before they can see us.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What I loved most about that December 25 eclipse is that Uranus, the planet of unexpected developments, now based in your second house of income, suggests an advancement will come along with a corresponding increase in salary.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The flights are very long in this tall house, and as I stood waiting at the head of the third one for a little servant girl to lumber up, I saw a gentleman come along behind her, take the heavy hod of coal out of her hand, carry it all the way up, put it down at a door near by, and walk away, saying, with a kind nod and a foreign accent, It goes better so.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Come along!
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, come along and put friend Soames out of his pain.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But the tinsmith happened to come along, and he made me a new head out of tin.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
My house ain't much for to see, sir, but it's hearty at your service if ever you should come along with Mas'r Davy to see it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
One man can then go across and the rest will cover him with guns, until he sees that it is safe for the whole crowd to come along.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Come along with me, and I will show you the four greatest quizzers in the room; my two younger sisters and their partners.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
That’s a good thought, said the thieves; come along, we shall see what you can do.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
