Read full poem →’aven’t known. What do you look at me like that for? What do you know?
What did you come for? Say!
Dictionary Entry
To search for someone with the intent to apprehend or cause harm.
In a Sentence
“You should hide. The police are coming for you.”
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Poetry examples for “come for”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Which, for we apprehend it by our faith,
Already is—is come for her and me.
Yea, though I sin, my sin is not to death;
Read full poem →Months o'er Verona, till the feast
Was come for Florence the Free Town :
And at the shrine of Baptist John
Read full poem →So seize the day, -- or ever it be past, --
And let the morrow come for what it will.
Read full poem →To the shrunken, the claw-fingered,
“So you come for me to-day.”--
“Yes, to give you warning;
Read full poem →To those who come for what she was--
The few left who know where to find her--
Read full poem →Shall find performed thy special ministry,
And time come for departure, thou, suspending 5
Thy flight, mayst see another child for tending,
Read full poem →Much is to learn, much, to forget
Ere the time be come for taking you.
Read full poem →With all its angry and vehement play of causes
(With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years),
These recitatives for thee,--my book and the war are one,