fixing to

Example Sentences

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Anderson has just about cleaned his plate of cucumber salad, pita and hummus, and I’m fixing to leave him to the joys of having his portrait taken.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

“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

“Anything that needed fixing to make the world a better place, she was involved in it.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2022

Oh, law, was Mama fixing to hear how he’d loved Miss Love from the minute he laid eyes on her?

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns