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Sentence Examples This impedes movement of oncoming traffic, which builds up along the main ramp of the flyover. But see, when the oncoming car approached, I had to make a decision over the alternatives available to me. Now reaching the bottom of the steps Henry vaults across the street in front of an oncoming car and forces it to jam the brakes. He somehow got around me and the truck and missed an oncoming car by a whisker. Two cars collided and another careened across in front of oncoming traffic and it was really a bad scene. Police are unsure why Collins apparently ignored properly functioning warning signals and drove his car in front of the oncoming train. I can't even imagine why he would actually, purposely, try to jump in front of an oncoming car. Opal ran after them, shooting the front tire of an oncoming police car sending it spinning out of control. 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. I slammed on my brakes and the back of the oncoming car came to a halt inches from the front of my scooter. We installed a kangaroo bar to prevent damage when kangaroos jumped into the oncoming car lights. His 22-year-old brother was thrown in front of an oncoming car, which narrowly missed him after the driver swerved. Later on as the willy-willy gallops across the country, whirling a column of dust, trees lash their branches to warn man of the oncoming storm. Thus, breeding males commonly face the rigors of the oncoming winter in poor physical condition. In most cases, birds will tuck their wings and dive if they perceive an oncoming aircraft as a threat. She smiled wryly to herself, thinking that perhaps he, like the local songbirds and crows, had flown south to avoid the oncoming winter. The air outside was chill, sign of the oncoming winter, though there was still no snow. For a moment, I thought that Mom had decided to bring in a hot pad because of oncoming winter. It spun across the road into the path of oncoming vehicles and disintegrated on impact. Yital wanted to know, ignoring her comment about the chill of the oncoming winter. Show More Sentences With the oncoming of beautiful weather, he clothed himself in his khaki, American Eagle shorts that showed his bronzed calf muscles exquisitely. They didn't speak for a while longer, as the sun moved lower in the sky, signaling the oncoming of dusk and eventually night. I stared at him for a moment out of defeat, and then squeezed my eyes shut against the oncoming of new tears. With the echo and reecho of the cave, the colony of bats sounded like the oncoming of a train. The sleek, three-pronged turbines swivel to face the oncoming tide, generating up to 35 kilowatts of electricity each. As the wind increased, the yacht heeled over to a precarious angle and its bow was being continually submerged by the oncoming swell. A family friend sped through a red light and hit oncoming vehicles in Cheltenham, killing her daughter. Right before the collision I just mentioned, two cars outrace an oncoming train. As the oncoming car turned into the straight ahead of them it dipped its headlights. It's a single lane for you, a single lane for oncoming traffic, and in the middle they've painted an obviously desperate double red line. The same week, a very experienced and fit cyclist mate permanently damaged his arm after shooting a red light into the path of an oncoming car. The crew refuelled, resupplied and cleaned Alexander in preparation for the oncoming crew. Another possibility is that Mr Rogers was momentarily dazzled by the lights of oncoming traffic. But the boy had seen it trip, stumble and fall into the road, to be knocked down and killed by an oncoming tractor. Am I wrong in thinking that left-hand-drive cars on dipped beam will dazzle oncoming traffic when driving on the right? Less than half had fitted deflectors on their headlamps, as required, to stop them dazzling oncoming drivers when driving on the right at night. The horses snorted and pranced in place, apparently sensing the oncoming danger. Following the impact, the truck careened into the eastbound lane of Highway 52, directly towards an oncoming van. Like deer in the headlights of an oncoming car, manatees have poor avoidance strategies when in the path of danger. Swerving to avoid an oncoming car, his vehicle struck the kerb, crashed backwards through the stone balustrade and plunged into the river. Show More Sentences They pulled me out of the water just in the nick of time, or my kayak paddler would put his kayak in between me and an oncoming tiger snake. Thundering flickers of light flashed across the late night sky, the tattle tale sign of the oncoming storm. The giant orb plopped onto the path of an oncoming ferry and bobbed around like some wayward kind of multicoloured buoy. The crazed driver tears through the intersection and barely avoids a brutal collision with an oncoming tractor trailer. Bricks cascaded into the path of oncoming cars as a lorry shed its load in an accident at Seend on Wednesday lunchtime. Distracted by this new threat, the infantry began to open fire on the oncoming cars. A shopping cart carrying her baby rolled out of a store parking lot and headed straight for oncoming traffic. That is when the side of Earth you stand on faces the oncoming stream of debris that creates the shower. Up on the hill, the Americans pulled back, abandoning the earthworks and the Breed's Hill Fort to the oncoming attack. The oncoming mobile reconnaissance unit closed in as the immense gears and supports shafts crepitated while the great metal gates rose forth. You are driving down a road, and a vehicle in the oncoming lane wants to turn across your lane unto a side road. The suspect car sideswiped two oncoming vehicles before hitting a third vehicle and coming to a stop. Each receiver detects the oncoming of the data signals with the maximum delay on the transmission paths. She is now calling for traffic calming measures to reduce the speed of oncoming motorists. Will the change in barometric pressure or the oncoming of precipitation give an allergy sensitive person a headache? He believed Mrs Letch probably tried to correct the skid but in doing so steered squarely into the path of the oncoming car. I mean, you'd have to be crazy to stand there facing an oncoming stampede of bison at full-throttle, everybody knows that. After a few minutes, he let go of all his inhibitions, playing like a child, throwing himself into oncoming waves and trying to bodysurf. But the opposite holds true if the house is at the end of a T-junction or in the fork of a road where it faces oncoming traffic. As the boat was swinging from a port to a starboard tack, one of the ladies stood up and turned directly into the oncoming boom. Show More Sentences He lurches the car across the traffic island and accelerates toward the oncoming traffic. Sorry but I'm unable to visit your blogs, we are slipping anchor and pulling out of harbour to run from an oncoming typhoon. With the oncoming of darkness, Tokyo city became alive with bright neon signs. I stop to take a breather, before looking up in to the lights of an oncoming snowmobile. With no fruits and few vegetables, and in such cramped quarters, I fear the oncoming of plague greatly. One wonders if in fact the intended hijackers didn't use the barrier of oncoming traffic to hem in the panel van and force it to stop. He sounded his warning horn, but Sgt Moodie's only response was to turn his back to the oncoming train. Traffic thins on the divided highway as I approach the oncoming edge of the hurricane. She steered into the oncoming lane, and motioned for the Dodge to pull over. Anyone who has rushed to get across a Hong Kong street in front of oncoming traffic knows that moving on two feet can be dangerous here. I tossed the wrench in front of an oncoming car, and it ran over it, bending the handle. Sansak had tried to avoid the checkpoint, making a U-turn in front of the oncoming car. Players will spear hard grounders with backhanded-finesse, make over-the-shoulder catches or turn double plays by leaping over oncoming base runners. They certainly had no problem coping with a brisk run along a narrow, twisty country road where oncoming traffic and constant blind bends required repeated firm applications. Every night the khalasi walked through the dark tunnel and then stood outside to wave his lamp to the oncoming train as a signal that the track was clear. Two missiles flew out from Nymph's hull and crashed into the oncoming Wraiths, the first had been shattered into pieces while the other had merely been winged. 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. On one side of the road was a face of granite, on the other was a 1,000-foot cliff, and a fully-loaded tractor-trailer rig was steaming up toward them in the oncoming lane. He was drifting helter skelter towards the path of oncoming rowers. The others quickly drew their weapons and rushed the oncoming enemy. Show More Sentences Then imagine moving in to tackle an oncoming ballcarrier who is bigger. The barrier had clearly prevented a cross-over accident on a busy trunk road where the vehicle would otherwise have probably ploughed into oncoming traffic. Their sedan collided with an articulated lorry already in the outside lane when they pulled out to overtake and were shunted into the path of an oncoming mini van. But the car roared away, the driver so desperate to escape that he veered into oncoming traffic. A block away, a car without a driver speeds through a red light and crashes into oncoming traffic. An aura is a warning symptom, or set of symptoms, that precedes an oncoming migraine. When they reached the Will Rogers Park, just after Sunset, he did a u-turn at high speed into oncoming traffic. Inevitably, they will have to slam on the brakes and cut in front of you in order to avoid hitting the very large transport truck in the oncoming lane. What you can also see is a taxi in the middle, stopped across the oncoming lane of traffic, and a security van parked on single yellow lines just after the bus lane. This time the British had a greater technical advantage, using star shells to illuminate the oncoming masses, who were shot down in great numbers. I followed her gaze and nearly jumped in front of an oncoming car. Grogan advises drivers to pull over when oncoming cars approach. The car overtook as it approached a blind bend and the oncoming car on the other side of the road had to swerve on to the verge to avoid a collision. A similar incident took place at the 2000 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim when a spectator wandered around the course and crossed the track in front of oncoming cars. Birds filled the woods with their songs, despite the oncoming winter. In a descriptive passage that recalls Pickthall's poetry, the story attributes a pre-verbal understanding of the signs of the oncoming winter to both men. 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. Dan hefted the pistol in his hand, watching the oncoming cavalrymen. Gaffle turned round and stared at the oncoming horde of hobgoblins. It came to rest facing oncoming traffic, while the lorry also slewed around and shed its load, eventually overturning and ending up upside-down on the grass verge. Show More Sentences Choose your line carefully, you will most likely end up on the wrong side of the road at some point but that's alright, have your co-driver check for oncoming traffic. He had even parked on the other side of the road, facing the oncoming traffic so that he wouldn't be inconvenienced by having to move to the passenger seat. So far, the Bank of England's attempts to slow the consumer boom here look to have been as feeble as placing matchsticks in the path of an oncoming train. Earlier this month, Luna surfaced in the path of an oncoming floatplane. And around her, spreading higher and higher though yet to disperse into the air, strong, eddying winds whirl, becoming one with the oncoming storm. I have needed to push my children out of the way of oncoming traffic when using this crossing, even when the lights are on red and the green man is on. You have to slip through an earthquake in the time continuum to enter a series of 3D worlds and blast away oncoming armies. The Yukon slammed into the jersey wall separating them from oncoming traffic. Amidst the clomps of oncoming horses, he could now hear men's low, conferring voices. Doreen Winkler is being hailed as a hero after she saved two men from an oncoming subway at Bowling Green station in New York City. There are passing places, locally called 'pockets', where cars must wait to enable oncoming traffic to pass or overtake. An advertising poster on a transit shelter makes a better door than a window, when trying to spot oncoming traffic. If a train broke down on the line, the policeman had to run a mile down the track to stop oncoming traffic. This works both ways across the alps but is more efficient if blowing from the south due to the steeper step for oncoming wind from the south. Larger ships may also be required to moor at the bollards provided at intervals along the canal to allow the passage of oncoming vessels. Furthermore, there are regulations regarding the passing of oncoming ships. With Warrior, Defence closed in for the kill, only to blunder right into the gun sights of Hipper's and Scheer's oncoming capital ships. The attack was made so unexpectedly that Garfield had no time to escape the oncoming spears, three of which struck him in the body. He overtook on a blind bend and blind summit, before spotting an oncoming car, oversteering and overturning. One protester drove through the work area against oncoming traffic, claiming he was misdirected by the flagger. Show More Sentences Looking out of my office into Market Street I see chancier motorists running the gauntlet against the tide of oncoming traffic. He then crashed, head on, into an oncoming car, killing the passenger and injuring many others in the resulting consequential crashes. While he was calling the emergency services, a GNER southbound train collided with his Land Rover and derailed into the path of an oncoming goods train. There is a system that allows the main-beam headlamps to be kept on permanently without dazzling oncoming traffic by cleverly masking out vehicles in their cone of light. The pile-up happened on the M40 in Buckinghamshire last May when Mr Barton's pallet truck smashed through the central reservation and collided with oncoming traffic. The mini bus crashed against the delivery vehicle or known as Bakkie in South Africa and fell on its side on the opposite lane facing oncoming traffic. Retired haulage contractor Ernest Copple, 83, and his wife Jean, 79, died when their Toyota Camry veered across the road without warning and hit an oncoming car last year. A bitter easterly breeze blew with a threat of oncoming winter. Some man that wayfaring was stood by housedoor at night's oncoming. Seated on the left, the driver preferred that other wagons pass him on the left so that he could be sure to keep clear of the wheels of oncoming wagons. The bus, ignoring the stop light at a railway crossing, was split in half by the oncoming train, said Jorge Camacho, head of emergency services in Nuevo Leon state. Examples from Classical Literature The snow-white spires of the oncoming ship swayed with solemn and stately motions to the underrun of the quartering sea. It coincides with the oncoming of the cold, either in the Mousterian or the Magdalenian. The big, grey, timber wolf still roamed the woods, although it soon disappeared before the oncoming wave of invading settlers. He knew not how nor why, yet he got his feel of the oncoming event from the gods themselves. And then he and Fred, as well as the twins, settled down to the task of trying to outrace the oncoming squall. They laid her on the ground beside the door and watched the oncoming lights. With the oncoming of the parks and play-grounds, all of this, we may hope, will change. The oncoming of bad weather, beheld from below, is a grievance to the holiday-maker. Another woman sprang forward and picked it up, with a chivalrous air, as if rescuing a human being from an oncoming express train. Bwana shaded his eyes with his hand and gazed out toward the oncoming rider. As I watched the oncoming ten I saw their pursuers race swiftly into sight. Yet what of that great oncoming horde of which we were but the vanguard? Calots were growling out their savage gutturals, whining to be at the throats of the oncoming foemen. Already she could see dimly through the fog of smoke the murky headlight of the oncoming engine. Spiny-tailed lizards scamper over the bulbous roots of 1,000-year-old elephant's foot plants, seeking shelter from an oncoming storm. He dared not risk a fight with this young lightning-flash, and again he knew, and more bitterly, the enfeeblement of oncoming age. He might as well have tried to stop an oncoming rocket ship. She seemed to tower over Caswall, and he to give back before her oncoming. Adam shuddered at the thought of his own strength, as with the oncoming of this dread he knelt down by Arthur's side and lifted his head from among the fern. The din became crescendo, like the roar of an oncoming train. Show More Sentences There was a dryness about them, a brownness, a sense of oncoming decay. 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