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:

  • 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!

  • Up-and-coming challenger to undisputed champion to complete basket case in the span of two decades: The saga of the Japanese economy looks more and more like a late-1940s boxing melodrama--though one imagines that if this were Hollywood, the producers would demand that Japan ultimately get up off the canvas and retake the title.

  • 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.

  • And although it lacks history, Binjiang Road has modern shops, cafés, and performing troupes, making the east bank an up-and-coming rival to the west bank.

  • Those who lose out are small and up-and-coming wineries, specialty producers and, of course, consumers who would have more choice and lower prices.


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