Example sentences for: oncoming

How can you use “oncoming” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • If you want to get anywhere on foot you have to at once leap over the dog shit and burst heroically through oncoming hordes of French people.

  • I'm 6'3" and 195 lbs. and it took every ounce of strength I had to stop from smashing into oncoming traffic in the tunnel.

  • 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.


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