When you use "how come" you are asking why a certain thing happened or had to happen. It means "how is that".
Here are 46 examples to use "how come" in English:
- "How come we never know what's going on?" he groused.
- BOY: How come so many crayfish live under the rocks and stuff?
- Hebe: How come the Japanese yen has inflated so much?
- How come all the freshmen get to do as a club member is reserving the court?
- How come blackbirds and thrushes and pied wagtails are unaffected?
- How come Dave's home? Isn't he feeling well?
- How come green gas smells different than fuel propane?
- How come he got the job?
- How come he needs to dominate me to define his manhood?
- How come he will not call you?
- How come he's asked us to spend all this money and not them?
- How come I always seem to go out with small men?
- How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy?
- How come I wasn't told?
- How come it appeared in locations three thousand miles apart at, apparently, the exact same time?
- How come Mrs Wall-Eye know my name?
- How come parents worry so much?
- How come the sky is blue?
- How come the social worker had had to change the time?
- How come the vast majority of the population appears to want to play make-believe?
- How come time speeds up and slows down all at once? 17.47 Steven looks up from call to opposite number in Coventry.
- How come Tyler's still here?
- How come we never agree?
- How come you always question me?
- How come you are so upset?
- How come you cannot make a decision?
- How come you flunked? I thought you did everything the fortuneteller told you to do.
- How come you got back so early?
- How come you got that post in the adventure - joint enterprise?
- How come you never asked me what happened?
- How come you never call me?
- How come you never took some sellout establishment job?
- How come you never visit us any more?
- How come you stayed out so late?
- How come you're watching a rabbi play electric guitar?
- How come you've ended up here?
- How come, if all were cloned from the same original zygote?
- How come? How do you know?
- If she spent five years in Paris, how come her French is so bad?
- If she spent five years in Paris, how come she can't speak a word of French?
- If she's got money to run a car, how come she gets the bus every day?
- Joey, how come you never sweet-talk me in person?
- So how come they void themselves on me from a great height with a white and annoyingly conspicuous product?
- So how come you got an invitation and not me?
- So how come you missed the train?
- So if you hate the theory so much, how come you're so boned up on it?