[
UK
/ˈɒnkʌmɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɔnˌkəmɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɔnˌkəmɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
-
the beginning or early stages
the onset of pneumonia
ADJECTIVE
- moving toward one
How To Use oncoming In A Sentence
- Following the impact, the truck careened into the eastbound lane of Highway 52, directly towards an oncoming van.
- As she drove along the narrow, winding country lanes she and an oncoming coach, carrying teenagers to school in Harrogate, slowed so both vehicles could safely pass.
- Is there any light at the end of the tunnel or is it just an oncoming train? The Sun
- He believed Mrs Letch probably tried to correct the skid but in doing so steered squarely into the path of the oncoming car.
- The system has a safeguard built in to ensure that the drivers of oncoming cars are not dazzled. Times, Sunday Times
- Will the change in barometric pressure or the oncoming of precipitation give an allergy sensitive person a headache?
- With the oncoming of darkness, Tokyo city became alive with bright neon signs.
- Some were so disorientated that they ran down the tracks into tunnels, heedless of the danger from oncoming trains, their only instinct to get out.
- They feared the store was about to close and so blocked an oncoming car. The Sun
- The suicidal Beatrice who is now ready to step intentionally in front of an oncoming car picks out a man across the street to focus her resolve.