ONCOMING


Meaning of ONCOMING in 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, 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.

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