Approaching

//əˈpɹoʊt͡ʃɪŋ//

"Approaching" in a Sentence (14 examples)

As the plane was approaching turbulence, the pilot asked the passengers aboard the plane to fasten their seat belts.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intention of doing you good, you should run for your life.

The approaching exam, they knew, would be quite easy.

The final exams are approaching.

I saw a figure approaching in the distance.

The dog kept me from approaching his house.

Christmas is fast approaching.

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, "Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

The air feels cold this morning; winter is approaching.

Today's paper says that a big typhoon is approaching.

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The evacuation of approaching 200,000 people, along with reports of high radiation levels, of burning spent fuel, and apocalyptic footage of plumes of debris erupting from the stricken plant, will revive a question that seemed to have been retreating from global concerns: how safe is nuclear power?

The army was approaching from the north.

But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.

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