oncoming
Example Sentences
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In the book’s moving final pages, the mouse faces down the oncoming waves with all the fierceness of a captain at the prow of her ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Bankhardt told a police officer he would be "coming home", but shortly after 20:30 BST he collided with oncoming traffic.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
A preliminary investigation found the driver of an Infiniti G35 veered into oncoming traffic on Mount Emma Road in Littlerock, near Palmdale.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
The mostly smooth ride was only interrupted when an oncoming vehicle veered into the wrong lane, forcing the car to stop suddenly.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Sure enough, McLaggen, for reasons best known to himself, had pulled Peakes’s bat from him and appeared to be demonstrating how to hit a Bludger toward an oncoming Cadwallader.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
