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 Translation for 'to come across sth' from English to French
tomber sur qn./qc.to come across sb./sth.
rencontrer qn./qc. sur son cheminto come across sb./sth.
achopper sur qc.to come across sth.
trouver qc. par hasardto come across sth.
s'encoubler sur qc. [suisse] [trébucher]to come across sth.
Partial Matches
tomber sur un bec [fam.] [loc.]to come across a snag [coll.] [idiom]
au travers de qc. {adv}across sth.
à travers qc. {adv}across sth.
traverser qc. [océan, pays, pièce]to go across sth.
aviat.
survoler qc.
to fly across sth.
gambader à travers qc.to lope across sth.
auto
traverser qc. en voiture
to drive across sth.
traverser qc. à piedto walk across sth.
traverser qc.to walk across sth.
orn.
raser qc.
to skim across sth.
transp.
couper qc. [route, voie ferrée]
to cut across sth.
ricocher sur qc. [eau]to skim across sth.
traverser qc. à la nageto swim across sth.
franchir qc. [pont]to go across sth. [bridge]
bicyc.
traverser qc. à vélo
to ride across sth. [cycle]
faire traverser qn. qc.to help sb. across sth.
faire traverser la rivière à qc. en tirantto pull sth. across a river
franchir qc. d'un bondto jump across sth. [e.g. chasm]
franchir qc. d'un bondto leap across sth. [e.g. chasm]
aviat.
sillonner qc. [aéronef]
to fly to and fro across sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • Some companies, open-source communities, and software developers have chosen to deprecate use of "whitelist" and "blacklist" in favor of names which describe the purpose of those lists less ambiguously and are unlikely to come across to a reader as insensitive such as "allow list" and "deny list".
  • Nick discovers that Crazy Mary is Berton's mother and goes to see her, only to come across her lifeless body.
  • They were surprised to come across another Spanish ship, piloted by Diego Miruelo, who was either on a slaving voyage or had been sent by Diego Colón to spy on Ponce de León.
  • In and around the city one is assured to come across Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Venda, Tonga language and Nambya speaking people.
  • Returning to the United States, she began to come across traces of Dracula. She set off to find him, and finally tracked him down in his castle. They made love, Dracula swearing his loyalty to her.

  • The police officers were written to come across as everyday guys and Cory Edwards has explained that the decision to make three of them pigs was not politically motivated.
  • They are deliberately trying not to come across as intimidating, so as to entice a call.
  • He also voiced concern that initiatives like Girlamatic might section off and divide the webcomic community, making it less likely for male readers to come across the works of female webcartoonists.
  • It is not uncommon to come across roadside shrines in Chile.
  • The castle is surrounded by a bottomless abyss, which doubles as a moat in at least one episode, and a Jawbridge (a drawbridge formed by the lower jaw of the castle's "mouth") is used to come across it.

  • Proper statistics of femicide in Canada can be difficult to come across, since possible acts of femicide are regularly labelled as the killing of a spouse.
  • The little goat convinces the troll to wait for his big brother to come across, because he is larger and would make for a more gratifying feast.
  • Unfortunately, it is very rare to come across a local Cheongdo resident that speaks English.
  • In a 2011 interview, Eco explained that a friend happened to come across the acronym on a list of Jesuit acronyms in the Vatican Library, informing him of the likely origin of the name.
  • An exception to this is Beerenauslesen produced from more easily ripening grapes such as Ortega or Huxelrebe which have extremely high sugar content, but less noble rot character and less acidity, and therefore tends to come across as less elegant and usually without the potential to improve with cellaring.

  • He tries to comfort Masao with a small blue bell shaped like an angel bullied from two bikers whom he happens to come across.
  • If a policy maker happens to come across the argument, and is sufficiently persuaded to make public policy changes supporting the philosophers desired outcome, then the standard activist philosopher will be satisfied.
  • In the fashion of authors such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first and fourth books are written as if they were Arthur's journals, with Gurney going so far as to explain in the introductions how he happened to come across the old, waterlogged volumes.
  • Solanas was viewed as too mentally ill and too bound up with Warhol, according to Greer, "for her message to come across unperverted."
  • The vocals for the track had to be re-recorded twice over as MacKillop thought it need to come across as intimate-sounding; a moog riff was added in the bridge.

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