How to Use goings-on in a Sentence
goings-on
plural noun-
Yes, there is more nuance to the goings-on—read on to find out.
—Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 30 June 2023
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There are a number of third-party events and other goings-on held around the city.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2024
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Cody couldn’t get enough of the goings-on at the station when the two would stop by to drop off cassettes.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
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Stands to reason why the mom of four would want to keep her goings-on a little more under wraps these days.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
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Its motion-detection alerts put you right in the center of any goings-on.
—Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 4 May 2024
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On the other, this seldom has an impact on the movie’s larger goings-on.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 24 May 2025
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You were then read the day’s news by a loudspeaker or learned of the world’s goings-on via a television machine.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 2 Jan. 2025
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Aristotle grew obsessed with mapping the goings-on of the watery world.
—Matthew Gavin Frank june 12, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
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The goings-on in sports media are often discussed like a major sport unto themselves these days.
—Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
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For a summary of all the goings-on at UMG, scroll to the bottom.
—Marc Schneider, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2024
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Others have covered the goings-on for decades, getting to know the people and the neighborhoods.
—Rich Exner, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2023
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She's taken in by a seemingly kind, rich old couple and gets a second chance at fame but finds weird goings-on amid her swanky new digs.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
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The early ones bolster our sense of the Freemans’ routine, showing the goings-on on the farm.
—Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
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Some of those unanswered questions involve the characters’ goings-on outside of work.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 21 May 2025
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Welcome to December and all of the holiday goings-on.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 3 Dec. 2025
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But Jen maintains the goings-on in her own kitchen are significantly less refined.
—Julie Jordan, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2026
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Last but not least, this week is Marty, a 5-year-old cat often found supervising the goings-on around the house.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
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The novel’s intimacy serves as an emotional call to the reader and propels the story as much as the goings-on do.
—Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
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What’s got Amazon so excited about the goings-on at Anthropic?
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2024
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The three days of the 2023 draft, however, were overshadowed by the goings-on of the big league club and its players.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
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After that, in the twilight realm of the understory, the goings-on are handed over to fungi far older than the tree species themselves.
—Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026
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Their infant son Happy who reacted to the goings-on with facial expressions and an off-camera voice.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2026
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Whatever the house style, though, the home typically has a history of violence and weird goings-on.
—Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
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It must be remembered that Foreman’s work was primarily concerned with the goings-on inside his head—not yours.
—Andrew Lampert, Artforum, 1 May 2025
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Morris contributed a logical note to sneaky goings-on, and Lupus made his silent bit seem credible.
—Ed Olmstead, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
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Half of the game's length is swallowed up by me trudging from point A to point B while characters yap endlessly about the current goings-on.
—Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026
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You could be forgiven for ignoring the recent political goings-on in Iowa.
—Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
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Did the upstairs house potentially illicit goings-on?
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
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Time aplenty, then, for the customer to watch all manner of goings-on in the salon, and for sufficient intimacy to be achieved for all kinds of secrets to be spilled.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025
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Ewa also relates the goings-on that day to police in a cellphone video capturing sister Kaja being put in handcuffs.
—Phoebe Eaton, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
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