Words similar to oncoming

Example sentences for: oncoming

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The environmental consequences of the industrial revolution are caricatured by a picture of a bear and a coyote tethered, like cliffhanger heroines, to a pile of logs in the path of an oncoming train.
But the helmeted riders around the limousine, the fluttering flags atop it, the stoplights freezing oncoming traffic--all create an undeniable sense of moment.
Hannibal's elephants did not have to give way to oncoming traffic (there was none) and cries of “Mush, mush” are presumably all that has ever been required on polar ice-caps to urge on Eskimo dogs.
Negotiating the serpentine corridors of the big Rothko show at the National Gallery is like going through a tunnel that keeps getting darker only to find that the light at the end is an oncoming train.
Driving home from the set one day, James skids into oncoming traffic and crashes head-on into another car, killing its driver, whose widow, Dr. Helen Remington (Holly Hunter), stares in shock.