(v. i.) To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from.
(v. i.) To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment.
(v. i.) To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.
(v. i.) To happen or occur.
(v. t.) To bring to shore.
(v. t.) To reach; to come to.
(n.) Arrival.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
(2) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(3) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(4) Some 10 years after arriving in Sheffield with her husband and three-year-old son, Bazzie is a success story.
(5) Most specimens arrived in the laboratory mixed with 50% ethanol.
(6) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
(7) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
(8) You might even arrive home with something tolerable for supper.
(9) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(10) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(11) The arrival on Monday was another first for the two countries since Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks after Obama’s visit to the Caribbean island.
(12) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
(13) By paying attention to the variables that compose the best-interests approach, decision makers can arrive at decisions not to sustain life that are more easily justifiable than with any other approach.
(14) This is Part I of a study whose purpose is two-fold, that is, to arrive at a classification of diseases under investigation according to their responsiveness to acupuncture therapy, and to discuss and identify the most effective loci for the diseases investigated.
(15) The measured dose distributions at equivalent source activity and similar geometry of the applicators revealed the possibility with regard of all techniques of gynecologic irradiation utilized in our field of arriving at similar relative and absolute dose distributions by means of the Cs-137 afterloading technique.
(16) "We estimate that German arrivals will be down by about 25% by the end of the year."
(17) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
(18) The Rio+ 20 Earth summit could collapse after countries failed to agree on acceptable language just two weeks before 120 world leaders arrive at the biggest UN summit ever organised, WWF warned on Wednesday.
(19) He was given a standing ovation as he arrived on stage for the launch event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, San Francisco.
(20) At present the use of the four terms to describe the common types of diabetes leads to confusion, which could readily be resolved by arriving at agreed definitions for each of these terms.
Oncome
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Due to oncoming traffic he couldn’t and swerved in towards me and my child on a bike seat.
(2) tritaeniorhynchus, with oncoming darkness they become very active, gradually decreasing in activity toward mid night, but slightly increasing toward dawn.
(3) The first shot came back to him off the oncoming Subasic but the ball came back to Giroud and he scored with a right-foot effort that was still rising as it hit the net.
(4) The annual retreat to Jackson Hole, Wyoming , which has in previous years been dominated by discussion about the oncoming collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and the Greek debt crisis, this year focused on what impact a Chinese slowdown could have on the US economy.
(5) The results can be summarized as follows: a. the times of the two main meals show a high stability, both in working and in free-days, at about 1230 for lunch and 1915 for dinner, with a higher variability for the dinner-time; b. there are no relevant differences between men and women; c. there is a progressive advance of the breakfast-time (together with sleeping and waking times) with oncoming age; d. industrial workers advance the breakfast-time, on work days, compared to housewives, clerks, artisans and tradesmen, while the latter delay dinner-time as compared to the others; e. shiftwork breaks up the usual timetables interfering with at least one of the main meals, according to the different shifts (morning, afternoon, night); f. morning types anticipate meal and sleeping times in comparison to evening types, both while working and, above all, on free-days.
(6) The debutant slipped a beautifully weighted pass into Oscar's path and the Brazilian was suddenly running through, stretching out his right boot and poking a shot beyond the oncoming McGregor.
(7) Attempt to lift the ball over the oncoming keeper and put it wide.
(8) Although the majority of pedestrian fatalities to older children have been shown to be due to "dart-outs" into traffic with the child being struck by an oncoming car, pedestrian fatality incident for children less than five tended to occur when the child was backed over in the home driveway by the family van or light truck driven by a parent.
(9) The belief that incontinence signals oncoming incompetence is a cultural construction that is apparent in popular culture, such as literature and movies and reflected in the secrecy attendant on much incontinence in later life.
(10) Before becoming an MP Davey received awards from the Royal Humane Society and the chief constable of the British Transport police in 1994 for rescuing a woman from the path of an oncoming train at Clapham Junction.
(11) Racing back towards the square, Ruqayah saw oncoming armoured bulldozers, with blunt-nosed armoured personnel carriers behind them.
(12) As percussion grenades exploded by the Nile, demonstrators chanted "terrorists" at the oncoming police, though also called on them to join their ranks.
(13) Bird travelled along the valley road, colliding with oncoming vehicles and a stone wall before turning off the road signposted 'no through road' to Doctor Bridge, Boot.
(14) Oncoming car pulled out, flashed his lights to full beam, ignored three “give way” signs on his side, and blasted his way through.
(15) She took her own life, aged 19, by lying down on the tracks in front of an oncoming commuter train.
(16) Froes fell into the path of an oncoming car driven by a 17-year-old on a learner’s permit.
(17) The gradual increase in thyroid hormone concentration in the later half of hibernation may be associated with increased lipolysis and preparation of the oncoming reproductive period.
(18) Subjects made estimates with the dominant and nondominant eye closest to the oncoming ball.
(19) Statistically significant reduction of leukaemic infiltration in examined myelograms was as s rule the sign of oncoming favourable therapeutic result.
(20) Cars still try to overtake with oncoming traffic by passing with a foot or less of my handle bars.