Words similar to oncoming

Example sentences for: oncoming

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

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.
He is so excitable that I have to yank him out of the way of an oncoming car when he gets too wrapped up in one of his soliloquies.
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.
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.
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.