see something coming
Example Sentences
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We’ll be transparent when we see something coming in.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
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 Mark Twain
