oncoming
Example Sentences
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“He would hurl himself straight as an arrow right into the great roaring grey wall of an oncoming breaker and go clean through it as if it had neither weight nor momentum.”
Fighters wrap ropes around their punching hand, named "the spear", and block oncoming blows with the other, referred to as the "shield".
From BBC
"I am worried about the glare from oncoming lights," she says.
From BBC
Kites are cool birds because they can hover over one spot by flying into oncoming wind.
From Literature
The ridge did nothing to stop the rush of oncoming destruction.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
