Come-in-for Definition

Come-in-for Sentence Examples

• Sometimes I come in for lunch and sometimes I'd expect you to pack me a lunch.

• Deidre, come in for dinner.

• The situation itself and its accompanying privileges were what Voltaire chiefly aimed at, but there was a salary of two thousand livres attached, and he had the year before come in for three times as much by the death of his brother.

• Mansur wrote in his testament to his son that he had brought together so much money that, even if no revenue should come in for ten years, it would suffice for all the wants of the state.

• One of my graduate students, a nurse, was examining a patient who had come in for a routine appendectomy.