How to Use coming in a Sentence

coming

1 of 2 noun
  • There is sadness at the passing of the old ways and the coming of the new.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • De Rossi said the odds of a smooth coming-out didn’t seem to be in her favor at first.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 3 May 2022
  • That second coming of age might just have been the making of me.
    Eleanor Noyce, refinery29.com, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The rapper's résumé also points to the coming of a new style icon.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Drake has been teasing the coming of a new album for some time.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2022
  • The raindrops last week were an even stronger hint at the coming of fall and brought to mind the words of my favorite poet.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
  • It’s a coming of age tale which also explains some of the origins of the modern world.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Is both a coming of age and the transformation of a country.
    Emiliano Granada, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Better to get on with it than go down in history as the second coming of Arthur Burns and the 1970s.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022
  • This is just the latest nod for who many consider to be the second coming of Babe Ruth.
    Johan Moreno, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • The film is a coming of age following a high school student (Talia Ryder) who runs away while on a school trip and hits the road.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Brock Purdy looks like the second coming of a 49ers villain.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • This show is the reboot of the 1980s classic, The Wonder Years, and follows the coming of age story of a twelve-year-old black boy as told by his adult self.
    Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
  • And with the coming of another war, my grandmother packing parcels for her sons at the front?
    Perdita Buchan, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2022
  • But the spirit of the holiday remains, and the coming of Christ, and his message of hope, is one the community and the world needs deeply, Maria said.
    Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Project: Papeles, a coming of age film about two young asylum refugees searching for the ICE agent that saved them.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The constant bombardment of calamity and the coming of more of the same or worse tends to send any person scrambling for meaning in times like this.
    Michael Polk, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2022
  • This is a fantastical coming-of-age joyride about a 13ft-tall young Black man who lives in Oakland, CA.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The coming of a 21st century reboot of the film was announced earlier this month.
    Analis Bailey, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2022
  • More and more, fewer and fewer things make the coming of yet another year bearable.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • There’s a coming together at times that can benefit both of them.
    John Benson, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Scientists haven’t settled on a reason, though some have said the increase could signal the coming of El Niño.
    Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • But circumstances keep driving them apart over the course of years as each narrates her own coming-of-age story.
    Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • Keys is joined by Pulitzer Prize-finalist playwright Kristoffer Diaz, who brought the coming of age story to the stage.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Dec. 2023
  • For all these two men have in common, thousands of miles and a couple of decades separated their coming of age.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2022
  • There isn’t a hint of whimsy or showmanship in her grim-faced game, but the WNBA is starting to take notice of a second coming.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 July 2022
  • City and regional leaders hailed the news as the biggest industrial announcement for Gadsden since the coming of Goodyear to the city in the 1920s.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 22 June 2023
  • That is, nothing can be done until history is ended, in the transfiguration of the world through the parousia, the coming of Christ the King.
    Michael Robbins, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • This is a man who championed Black musicians long before — and long after — the coming of Elvis.
    Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 31 July 2022
  • In the Royal Enclosure, the great Elephant House with its eleven arches anticipated the coming of the tuskers and their dung.
    Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
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coming

2 of 2 adjective
  • The company has many plans for the coming year.
  • An official announcement will be made in the coming days.
  • The way the water moves foretells a coming shift of the wind.
    Caleb Paine, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
  • With tree pollen on the wane over coming weeks, next up is grass pollen.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023
  • So is this going to be the last hike for a while or are there more coming?
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • So, Commerzbank believes risks for the Aussie in coming months are to the upside.
    WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Here are the five games available to download and play, with a whole lot more coming!
    NBC News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • More than anything, this record feels like a coming home.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2022
  • This coming term is going to present a number of key tests for the court and its members.
    Brianne Gorod, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2021
  • In coming months, the drill will go under the river itself.
    Ricky Carioti, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • Here is a screen of stocks that have performed best in the coming period.
    Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The change will roll out in coming months, officials said.
    Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • Even when the rain broke, the weather app on my phone showed another coming storm.
    Jill Talbot, Longreads, 26 June 2021
  • In coming months, the offer will be extended to members across the globe.
    David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The channels will roll out to other countries in coming months.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
  • These could be the first shoots of a coming debate over whether Trump should be the party's nominee for a third time, in 2024.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • That'll be true for other, non-Nanoleaf, Thread devices in your home as well in a coming update.
    Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The coming Jazz Age brought even more commercial growth to Dallas, enough to prompt a hotel arms race.
    Dallas News, 24 May 2022
  • Rain is expected to fall on the site in coming days, however.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The paintings will go on display in coming months, but there’s no schedule yet for the Picassos.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 14 May 2023
  • And the coming broadcast season gets both a Night Court reboot and a Quantum Leap sequel.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
  • His modeling team predicts a total of about 900 deaths in a coming third wave.
    New York Times, 21 July 2021
  • Also, with our abundant wind and rain this year and more coming, fungi grow quickly.
    oregonlive, 22 May 2022
  • There are roughly four million charging units in the country, double the number from a year ago, with more coming.
    Claire Fu, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • This is the basic premise of Pixar’s latest coming-of-age tale, which features boy band music and plenty of humor and heart.
    Whitney Perry, Glamour, 1 Jan. 2022
  • And in coming days, a new heat dome was expected to form over California.
    Somini Sengupta, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
  • The coming heat wave is bad news for fire mitigation efforts.
    Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 June 2021
  • By far the largest chunk of the coming wealth transfer — about 86 percent, Cerulli estimates — will flow to children and other heirs.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Dec. 2021
  • The Court, with its newfound 6-3 conservative majority, will hear the case in the coming term.
    Joshua Prager, CNN, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Mike, his favorite in-house heavy, will surely provide the muscle and close combat skills needed in the coming battle.
    New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022

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