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Like some traffic
Answer for the clue "Like some traffic ", 8 letters:
oncoming
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Word definitions for oncoming in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES oncoming traffic (= traffic coming towards you ) ▪ The driver, too busy watching oncoming traffic, doesn’t notice the pedestrian ahead. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN car ▪ Butterfield, 32, of Gladstone Street, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
oncoming \oncoming\ n. the beginning or early stages; the onset. Syn: onset.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, from on + coming , present participle of come (v.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. approaching; coming closer n. 1 an early stage; an onset 2 an approach
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. moving toward one n. the beginning or early stages; "the onset of pneumonia" [syn: onset ]
Usage examples of oncoming.
Sula programmed her own swing around Barbas, but her wild accelerations away from the oncoming missiles had forced her out of the most efficient route.
Staring at the oncoming mass, unable to pull her eyes away from the destruction of Kaera, Cailin saw her mother and father running toward her, panic-stricken like the others.
I have watched copulating couples moving along darkened freeways at night, men and women on the verge of orgasm, their cars speeding in a series of inviting trajectories towards the flashing headlamps of the oncoming traffic stream.
The warglobes launched blue lightning at the oncoming human forces, vaporizing a dozen of the fastest, cockiest Remoras.
Chang commented as the first of the Silverdrake dropped off the crosstrees and climbed for altitude to engage the oncoming dragons.
Fanning the machine pistol slowly before them, Lafarge let loose a stream of explosive needles at the oncoming horde.
Early sunlight reached long wands across the Nenian Landbridge, stretching shadows from the long lines of horsemen who rode solemnly, nine abreast, into its oncoming radiance.
They marched past Metron, ignoring Vascay and Thalemos as well, and began to form a line facing the oncoming lizardmen.
Just as one of the moths turned and froze, facing the oncoming pair of handlingers and their hosts.
It struck the nearside curb and almost drove head-on into the oncoming traffic.
First an unemployed salaryman had run amok with a sword, killing three people and wounding ten others before jumping in front of an oncoming train.
The huge energic oncoming form is Father Scomber, leader of the move to flee by life-crime.
Sarah pressed herself against the side of the truck as the car skidded out of the oncoming lanes and across, narrowly missing the front of the truck and slamming into a utility pole.
Mara moved up before him, drifting back and forth, making herself the main target of the oncoming skips but never moving so far that her shields did not offer protection to Luke.
The winding, impossibly narrow road along the sheer edge of the Sorrentine Peninsula was treacherous and exhilarating, the oncoming traffic a challenge around every curve.