Words similar to up-and-coming
Example sentences for: up-and-coming
How can you use “up-and-coming” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
About halfway between Sagres and Lagos, Salema is regarded as an up-and-coming resort of this stretch, with a lively sprinkling of bars and restaurants, a pleasant beach with fishing boats, and a market.
Item : Hip-hop war of words erupts between up-and-coming rapper Canibus and ten-year-on-top LL Cool J. Culturebox sez: Move over, Rushdie and LeCarre!
Twice a week in the Style section she archly instructed up-and-coming baby boomers on appropriate personal, social, and professional decorum.
This is a company that: 1) has been a consistent money loser for almost its entire existence; 2) has constructed an entire business around the highly questionable proposition that people will overpay for mediocre food in order to sit next to the motorcycle that Bruce Willis rode in Pulp Fiction ; and 3) is spending large sums of money to pay an executive to live in Hollywood and build relationships with up-and-coming stars.
Nowadays, of course, the overbriefed newcomers are orientated , a longer verb that sounds suspiciously like a back-formation from orientation . Similarly, derivate looks like an up-and-coming contender for derive . Proceeding analogously, a classmate of mine in junior high school once talked of improvisating, but somehow her neologism never caught on.