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synonyms for going on

  • astir
  • brewing
  • cooking
  • forthcoming
  • getting ready
  • in preparation
  • begun
  • happening
  • being made
  • under way

antonyms for going on

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  • completed
  • ended
  • finished
  • broken
  • discontinuous
  • infrequent
  • intermittent
  • interrupted
      • bounded
      • ceasing
      • changeable
      • changing
      • completed
      • discontinuous
      • ending
      • ephemeral
      • finished
      • finite
      • halting
      • intermittent
      • interrupted
      • irregular
      • limited
      • stopping
      • temporary
      • terminable
      • transient
      • brief
      • fleeting
      • momentary
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            How to use going on in a sentence

            That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?
            THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
            "I don't know whether I am going to like this or not--this coming to live in town," thought the little pig.
            SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUM
            All my musical studies till now have been a mere going to school, a preparation for him.
            MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
            And now I am going on to a review of the broad facts of the educational organization of our present world.
            THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
            Then both the partners laughed together—pleasantly and cheerfully, as men who are going to receive money, often do.
            THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENS
            "We are going into the sunlight, out of the shadow;" and she glanced back at the west, which was of a slaty blackness.
            RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
            Concurrently with it there will be going on, as I have said, a man's special technical training.
            THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
            He lifted his head, looked around him, and was just going to switch off the light, when he noticed the open book on his table.
            BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
            A little boy had been quarrelling with his sister named Muriel just before going to bed.
            CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
            And he quite agreed with old Mr. Crow, who had come hurrying up to see what was going on.
            THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
            SYNONYM OF THE DAY
            OCTOBER 26, 1985
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            WORDS RELATED TO GOING ON

            • astir
            • brewing
            • cooking
            • forthcoming
            • getting ready
            • going on
            • in preparation
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