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Definition of "come and go" [come and go]

  • To alternately enter and exit into something (physically or figuratively) (verb)
  • To repeatedly appear and disappear (said especially of a feeling or pain) (verb)

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Use "come and go" in a sentence
  • "The broad, deep waters about Manhattan Island afforded easy access to the enemy fleet, which could come and go at will up the Hudson and East Rivers and interpose itself between whatever scattered positions the Americans chose to man."
  • "The local fishing people have no need for either a pier or a channel, since they come and go in their shallow-draft canoes."
  • "Our Vestal Virgin status will permit us to come and go in the Vestal side of the Domus Publica at—pardon my pun—will."