Example sentences for: oncoming

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • But the helmeted riders around the limousine, the fluttering flags atop it, the stoplights freezing oncoming traffic--all create an undeniable sense of moment.

  • 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.


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