adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
oncoming traffic (= traffic coming towards you )
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The driver, too busy watching oncoming traffic, doesn’t notice the pedestrian ahead.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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Butterfield, 32, of Gladstone Street, Darlington, was confronted by an oncoming car which braked and swerved.
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The pause became so long that Paula looked anxiously at her passenger, his face illuminated by the headlights of oncoming cars .
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The huge lorry is forced to mount the kerb to avoid a collision with the oncoming car .
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The person driving was forced to stop when Glover walked himself and Paul almost into the oncoming car .
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She walked into the path of an oncoming car driven by Neil Coates.
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Wing Chang, 70, tried to beat an oncoming car across a street.
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I said yes and he told me Nas had been in a collision with an oncoming car and had been killed instantly.
traffic
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This will mean that you have to look only one way for the oncoming traffic .
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We came around a bend, and soon found out why the oncoming traffic had stopped.
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There was the fork ahead of him, and he slowed for a gap in the oncoming traffic .
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He kept fading into the oncoming traffic or blindly passing slower vehicles at the most inopportune moments.
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It was left parked next to a bus stop, facing oncoming traffic , with its headlights on.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As Yanto went through, Billy turned and hurled his stick at the oncoming stag, which hesitated slightly.
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It was left parked next to a bus stop, facing oncoming traffic, with its headlights on.
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Miss Defy screeched around a blind bend into the path of an oncoming sedan.
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The pause became so long that Paula looked anxiously at her passenger, his face illuminated by the headlights of oncoming cars.
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We came around a bend, and soon found out why the oncoming traffic had stopped.
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What angered me most was the Gulag searchlight exposure of oncoming vehicles.
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Wing Chang, 70, tried to beat an oncoming car across a street.