oncoming

Example Sentences

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Tévoédjrè stood beside an armored vehicle on the perpendicular street, positioned between the oncoming column and Talon’s residence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

“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.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Consider this: A survey asking consumers what they expect the economy to look like six months from now has been below the threshold that signals an oncoming recession for the 11th month in a row.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025

The driver only took his foot off the throttle and applied the brakes at the point he collided with the oncoming Citroen C3, the data revealed.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

The ground rumbled with the weight of oncoming sauropods.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older