oncoming
- approaching; nearing: the oncoming train; the oncoming holiday season.
- emerging: the oncoming generation of leaders.
- approach; onset: the oncoming of winter.
Origin of oncoming
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approaching, coming, expected, forthcoming, imminent, looming, nearing, upcoming, advancingExamples from the Web for oncoming
Contemporary Examples of oncoming
But the car roared away, the driver so desperate to escape that he veered into oncoming traffic.
A block away, a car without a driver speeds through a red light and crashes into oncoming traffic.
An aura is a warning symptom, or set of symptoms, that precedes an oncoming migraine.
Well, there was nothing paltry about Obamacare or rescuing the country from an oncoming depression.
When they reached the Will Rogers Park, just after Sunset, he did a u-turn at high speed into oncoming traffic.
Historical Examples of oncoming
He knew not how nor why, yet he got his feel of the oncoming event from the gods themselves.
White FangJack London
He stooped; seized a boulder, hurled it at the oncoming Lee.
The World BeyondRaymond King Cummings
With the oncoming of the parks and play-grounds, all of this, we may hope, will change.
The Meaning of EvolutionSamuel Christian Schmucker
They laid her on the ground beside the door and watched the oncoming lights.
The Solar MagnetSterner St. Paul Meek
He might as well have tried to stop an oncoming rocket ship.
The Martian CabalRoman Frederick Starzl
oncoming
- coming nearer in space or time; approaching
- the approach or onsetthe oncoming of winter