Definition of COMING

Examples of coming in a Sentence

Noun

the coming of the children meant we could finally get the party started

Adjective

The company has many plans for the coming year. An official announcement will be made in the coming days.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

That Was Promised, who is basically the reincarnation of Azor Ahai, and destined to save mankind from the darkness in its second coming—which, sure seems to have been the White Walkers and the Army of the Dead. — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, "Is Arya Azor Ahai? The Battle of Winterfell in 'Game of Thrones'," 29 Apr. 2019 The monitor shows their comings and goings, all day, everyday. — Paul Mozur, New York Times, "Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras," 8 July 2018 Sexton has written extensively about the white nationalist movement, and knows that people track his comings and goings online. — Washington Post, "Maryland attack tells journalists to take threats seriously," 29 June 2018 First things first, Mayfield isn't the second coming of Johnny Manziel. — Scott Patsko, cleveland.com, "Browns draft 2018: Grades and reaction from national media," 29 Apr. 2018 All the evidence of their comings and goings was on the computer hard drives, and in memory, and in the ephemeral network transmissions to and from the GRU’s command-and-control servers. — Aaron Rupar, Vox, "Every sentence of Trump’s tweet accusing Democrats of “collusion” with Russia is a lie," 15 Nov. 2018 Reentering the industry in 2016, her second coming was a runaway success. — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, "This Victoria’s Secret Model Is on a Mission to Create Education Equality," 8 Nov. 2018 There's also a coming of age party, a lot of alcohol, and some pretty heated guy-guy, guy-girl-guy, and guy-girl fornication. — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, "15 Netflix Shows With the Hottest Sex Scenes You Need to Watch," 21 Dec. 2018 This was a big one for designer comings and goings, with debuts at Celine (Hedi Slimane), Burberry (Riccardo Tisci), and Louis Vuitton menswear (Virgil Abloh), in addition to Jones’s arrival at Dior Men. — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, "The Top 5 Most Trending Runway Shows of 2018," 18 Dec. 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective

Jumping on the bandwagon In hearings and closed-door work over coming months, lawmakers in the House aim to peel the complex onion of the tech industry's dominance. — CBS News, "Big Tech becomes big punching bag at House hearing on news business," 11 June 2019 The coming changes could also affect users of prepaid cellphone brands like TracFone that use other companies’ networks. — Drew Fitzgerald, WSJ, "AT&T Gives 3G Service Three Years to Live," 21 Feb. 2019 Still, investors remain skittish about how long the U.S. economy can continue to grow, warning that a flattening yield curve could signal a coming slowdown in the world’s largest economy. — Avantika Chilkoti, WSJ, "European Shares Creep Down Despite Trade Optimism," 13 Dec. 2018 In the 1990s and early aughts, a handful of coming-of-age films, including Love and Basketball, Akeelah and the Bee, Spike Lee’s Crooklyn, and Our Song, starring teenaged Kerry Washington, featured adolescent black girls. — Genelle Levy, Teen Vogue, "The Hate U Give Is the Film That Black Girls Need Today," 19 Oct. 2018 But these projections put the coming impact of Brexit into stark relief. — Jen Kirby, Vox, "Brexit will hurt the UK’s economy no matter what — says the government’s own analysis," 29 Nov. 2018 That decline is on track to continue this fall, after the nation’s business programs received 13% fewer GMAT score reports from foreign applicants for the coming academic years. — Kelsey Gee, WSJ, "‘U.S. Workers Only’: Companies Hesitate to Hire Foreign M.B.A. Students," 1 Aug. 2018 Margaret Gerwels says her son was an honors student at middle school who loved sports and hoped to make the freshman basketball team this coming school year at Marian High School in Mishawaka. — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, "Plaque returning to final Elvis concert site in Indianapolis," 26 June 2018 Margaret Gerwels says her son was an honors student at middle school who loved sports and hoped to make the freshman basketball team this coming school year at Marian High School in Mishawaka. — Fox News, "Indiana teen killed by basketball backboard in freak accident," 26 June 2018

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