What is "came along"

Usage examples of "came along".

I pulled Jezzie up and she came along with me somewhat reluctantly.

Anarchy, as a political concept, is a naive floating abstraction: for all the reasons discussed above, a society without an organized government would be at the mercy of the first criminal who came along and who would precipitate it into the chaos of gang warfare.

She should have carried on as an actress till someone better came along.

Fortunately he kept his grip on the Hole Hawg, which remained lodged in the wall, and he simply dangled from it and shouted for help until someone came along and reinstated the ladder.

So, of course, Nora wouldn't stand it a minute, and then these newspaper people came along and asked her to go to Greece for them and she accepted.

Two furtive OpsCrew types came along an aisle between vats, supporting a limber-limbed replica of Makarska Vis.

I remember that when Sputnik came along, it seemed to me to be somewhat after the fact.

Not that he's a man who'd avoid a fight if it came along, as he's demonstrated various times on my behalf in the past few years.

After he put my lights out he tucked my purse underneath me, just in case somebody came along before I woke up.

Somebody came along with a skinning knife then, and cut me into slices and stretched them out in the sun to dry, and somebody else collected the slices and sewed them back together, swearing all the while.

I got his brother, Regulus, when he came along, but I'd have liked the set.

With matted beard, and swathed in a bristling shark-skin apron, about mid-day, Perth was standing between his forge and anvil, the latter placed upon an iron-wood log, with one hand holding a pike-head in the coals, and with the other at his forge's lungs, when Captain Ahab came along, carrying in his hand a small rusty-looking leathern bag.