Example sentences for: oncoming

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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