come in for
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.74 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If you go into the forest, you'll come in for a nasty surprise."
- "The director came in for a lot of criticism about the way she handled the disaster."
- "The evening meal was "a repast of most recherché description," involving an endless series of toasts to almost everybody (with the notable exception of the other railway already serving Brentford, which came in for some hard knocks from various speakers)."
- "As the Quakers are pacifists, they came in for community censure for deciding to join the fight for independence, but their conscience demanded a reconsideration of their pacifism."
- "[Katherine] Parkinson has come in for especially sustained attacks, given that her breakout role was in The IT Crowd, made by Graham Linehan, who is on the same side as [JK] Rowling when it comes to gender."