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oncoming
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oncoming
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, Darlington, was confronted by an oncoming car which braked and swerved.
▪ The pause became so long that Paula looked anxiously at her passenger, his face illuminated by the headlights of oncoming cars.
▪ The huge lorry is forced to mount the kerb to avoid a collision with the oncoming car.
▪ The person driving was forced to stop when Glover walked himself and Paul almost into the oncoming car.
▪ She walked into the path of an oncoming car driven by Neil Coates.
▪ Wing Chang, 70, tried to beat an oncoming car across a street.
▪ I said yes and he told me Nas had been in a collision with an oncoming car and had been killed instantly.
traffic
▪ This will mean that you have to look only one way for the oncoming traffic.
▪ We came around a bend, and soon found out why the oncoming traffic had stopped.
▪ There was the fork ahead of him, and he slowed for a gap in the oncoming traffic.
▪ He kept fading into the oncoming traffic or blindly passing slower vehicles at the most inopportune moments.
▪ It was left parked next to a bus stop, facing oncoming traffic, with its headlights on.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As Yanto went through, Billy turned and hurled his stick at the oncoming stag, which hesitated slightly.
▪ It was left parked next to a bus stop, facing oncoming traffic, with its headlights on.
▪ Miss Defy screeched around a blind bend into the path of an oncoming sedan.
▪ The pause became so long that Paula looked anxiously at her passenger, his face illuminated by the headlights of oncoming cars.
▪ We came around a bend, and soon found out why the oncoming traffic had stopped.
▪ What angered me most was the Gulag searchlight exposure of oncoming vehicles.
▪ Wing Chang, 70, tried to beat an oncoming car across a street.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
oncoming

oncoming \oncoming\ adj. moving toward one; approaching.

Syn: approaching.

oncoming

oncoming \oncoming\ n. the beginning or early stages; the onset.

Syn: onset.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oncoming

1844, from on + coming, present participle of come (v.).

Wiktionary
oncoming

a. approaching; coming closer n. 1 an early stage; an onset 2 an approach

WordNet
oncoming

  1. adj. moving toward one

  2. 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.