see something coming

Example Sentences

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“I see something coming and then, all of a sudden, I’m ready for something new. When I see a scenario in my head, I want to know if I can create it.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023

We’ve spent so many years guiding our kids, overruling them when they want to do something dangerous or destructive, flinging ourselves in front of them when we see something coming that they cannot.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2021

When you are in a car accident and remember it, every time you are in a car and you see something coming then you have that feeling of: ‘What if the car suddenly turns?’

From The Guardian • May 8, 2019

It’s my favorite thing when I watch things — to not see something coming.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2016

Pretty soon we see something coming that stood up like an amazing wide wall, and reached from the Desert up into the sky and hid the sun, and it was coming like the nation, too.

From Tom Sawyer Abroad by Twain, Mark