Incoming

//ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ//

"Incoming" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Incoming!

Incoming mail can be sorted by name, date, or title.

There's a storm incoming.

Sami and Layla were incoming freshmen.

The king mounted his horse, and, taking his worthless daughter behind him, set off at a gallop, the incoming flood seething and boiling at his steed’s fetlocks.

Turning the tide, you are on the incoming wave.

Yanni almost ran into an incoming car.

The solar system’s brightest planet, Venus, reflects around 65 percent of incoming sunlight.

Ziri saw a truck in the incoming lane.

There was no incoming call in the phone's memory.

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Incoming tides cause a tidal bore in many rivers.

Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.

In dense fog at about 10.25 p.m. on the night of October 25, two tank barges carrying petroleum [...] missed the entrance to the docks at Sharpness and were carried up the River Severn by the incoming tide. They collided with one of the piers of the Severn Bridge, carrying the Berkeley Road-Lydney branch of the Western Region, and as a result of the collision both tankers blew up.

The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.

"We landed in their killbox?" "We did. I am sor... No, belay that. Heads down! Cavalry incoming!"

The incoming prime minister gave a press conference.

Volume, however, was only part of the story because the incoming was almost always the heavier stuff. The hill received little 60mm or 82mm mortar fire but a deluge of 120mm mortar and 100mm artillery rounds.

I'll never forget the sight of those cannoneers standing at their guns firing back while the incoming was hitting all over. That was artillery's mission.

Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were vectored onto the oncoming hostiles, but once that initial task was accomplished, things began to collapse back into the cacophony and chaos that was all too familiar to those aboard the Enterprise, meaning that the end result was round about the same, the Japanese aircraft screaming into their attack runs on Hornet about the same time as most of the Wildcats managed to sort themselves out to begin their own attacks on the incoming.

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