ONCOMING in a Sentence

Learn ONCOMING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for ONCOMING, such as:

1. Her car went out of control and struck an oncoming vehicle.
2. The din became crescendo, like the roar of an oncoming train.
3. I built them to attempt to withstand the oncoming water as well as possible.
4. The car veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided with an oncoming truck.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of ONCOMING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
oncoming
 a.  coming nearer; approaching
Classic Sentence:
1  The din became crescendo, like the roar of an oncoming train.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  Her car went out of control and struck an oncoming vehicle.
2  The car veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided with an oncoming truck.
3  I built them to attempt to withstand the oncoming water as well as possible.