see coming
Example Sentences
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"That's a phenomenon I didn't see coming," said Jennie Hayes Kurtz of the country music band Brother and The Hayes.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
“Chemtrails” aren’t real, and the “contrails” you see coming out of airplanes are largely water vapor.
From Slate • Nov. 12, 2025
“Inventories have normalized to what we would normally see coming into peak season,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
The Bruins stranded five runners against Canady — three in the second inning and two more in the seventh — and fell victim to a steal of home they didn’t see coming.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2025
On the sidewalk I’ll feel her girlish walk take over, and die movement brings back a kind of emotion, a desolate and gossipy sympathy for the girls I see coming home from school.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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