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.

  • Of course any sane person recognizes the importance of paying computer experts to fix oncoming problems (just as it is important that plumbers fix antiquated pipes), but the use of their time is a cost, not a benefit.

  • 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.

  • Farrow says that after Roman Polanski cast her in the career-making role of the young, pregnant woman in Rosemary's Baby , he took advantage of her lack of an instinct for self-preservation and filmed a scene of her threading dangerously through oncoming traffic.

  • And his people, the Gungan, are a brave but primitive tribe who throw spears and rocks at the oncoming army in the climactic battle sequence.


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