fixing to
Example Sentences
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It’s 2025, and Mauna Loa is fixing to blow, something that can be very destructive: the 1868 eruption killed 77 Hawaiians and brought landslides and a tsunami.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024
He tells the officers, “We’re fixing to go. This is their last song.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023
“I was fixing to go to prison for a really long time for something that I didn’t even do, just because he was mad over his mistakes, over things that he had done,” she said.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2023
"I'm lost. I'm really lost. End of school's fixing to be here, she ain't gonna be there. I mean she's gone," he said.
From BBC • May 2, 2023
He said he’d been just fixing to go to bed when he heard a sound and went outside to look.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
