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View definitions for coming on

coming on

verb as in advance, progress

verb as in appear, enter

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Example Sentences

We muse over it, meanwhile enjoying the visible coming-on of spring in its foliage.

She was evidently not of a “coming-on disposition”; she was good, and Jean was, unfortunately, still married to the other.

But Turl, beyond the amiability which he had for everybody, was not of a coming-on disposition.

Juliette, of the Paris stage, with a distinctly coming-on disposition (and frock).

He watched and watched; but Kiopo always eluded him at the coming-on of dusk.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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