if someone or something comes across in a particular way, you have a particular opinion of them when you meet them or see them
if something such as a feeling or idea comes across when you speak, you make it very clear to people
to meet someone, or to find something by chance
A lot depends on how well you come across in the interview.
Anger is your worst enemy Holding on to it will make you come across as brittle or flat.
But steely though she can be, she comes across in person as perfectly pleasant.
But when you have emotions, you find it comes across in a really real way.
C. Talk to the first person you come across?
Do you think your suspicious mind might make you come across as very judgmental?
Have you ever come across such a horrible person in all your life?
He came across it by chance.
He wanders from the group and comes across a distressed young bull elephant with one leg in the air.
His sense of enthusiasm comes across very clearly.
How would one feel if one was to go walking in nature and suddenly came across a group of naked people?
I came across a word I’d never seen before.
It's a bit like coming across an accident.
Of course I've come across couples still together where one or other partner has not been entirely monogamous.
On that walk we came across a man having an epileptic fit.
Rarely did we come across other groups.
She comes across as very self-confident.
Sometimes I come across truly great finds which are of museum quality or have special historic significance.
The place is so remote that you can walk for hours without coming across a single person.
The problem is that all kind of good musical and lyrical themes come across as thrown together, rather than making coherent sense.
The unnamed woman rescued the four-year-old after coming across the accident scene.
Then she came across a man drinking beer in a front garden.
They were stopped when another parent came across them by chance.
This apparently makes Germans come across as more human.
Up the road, he came across a car accident.
We came across one man in his mid-thirties doing the climb barefoot.
When he failed to meet his daughter, she and her mum looked for him and came across the accident.
When you see an athlete perform, you have a pretty fair idea what sort of person you're going to come across when you meet up.
Where it becomes trickier is when we come across behaviour we find morally offensive, but over which we have no jurisdiction.
You can ruin your chances if you come across bad.
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