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
• For a summary of all the goings-on at UMG, scroll to the bottom.
  — Marc Schneider, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2024
• 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
• There are a number of third-party events and other goings-on held around the city.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Others have covered the goings-on for decades, getting to know the people and the neighborhoods.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2023
• Its motion-detection alerts put you right in the center of any goings-on.
  — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 4 May 2024
• Below is a rundown of goings-on from this evening forward.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2025
• But the people of Africa matter to James’ Sarah, who’s stepping up to blow the whistle about the nefarious goings-on.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2024
• But these days, the contrast between the Miami brand and the goings-on at City Hall seems especially stark.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• Diners sit at the bar or around the walls of the restaurant, looking out the windows at the goings-on; when the weather is nice, there’s alfresco seating on the sidewalk out front.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 26 July 2023
• For fans looking to mix horsepower with horse racing, Ford’s Garage is the place to be with its Kentucky Derby goings-on.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 1 May 2024
• 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
• Being an alien here might just be a metaphor for the difficult blessing of feeling enough apart from the thrum of life on Earth to report on its goings-on: to tell a story.
  — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• The goings-on in sports media are often discussed like a major sport unto themselves these days.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• The interview and the goings-on around it take place in the Fifes’ Montreal town house and are filmed with a nearly square frame and a broodingly dark dun-and-amber color scheme.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
• While the kids try to get to the bottom of the eerie goings-on at Port Lawrence, their parents are wrapped up in their own frantic efforts to deny, then cover up, their roles in the tragedy that started it all.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
• Democrats already fear a repeat of the chaos of the 1968 DNC in Chicago where bloody clashes between cops and protesters drew eyes away from the convention goings-on.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
• Wadsworth presides over the homicidal goings-on like an evil genius, leading the guests on a wild goose chase to solve the mystery of a murder that is only the first of several.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Over the entire lifetime of the treaty, however, only around 60 inspections have occurred—not exactly enough to keep a sharp eye on the goings-on.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2024
• What’s got Amazon so excited about the goings-on at Anthropic?
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2024
• All hell starts breaking loose before the one-hour point, and at first these goings-on further underline the sense of homage to Williams Friedkin and Blatty’s horror classic.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
• The idea was to be something of a watchdog, eyeing the goings-on in the house where the Höss family lived, in order for the audience to see how a mundane family life can co-exist with the heart of evil.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
• Whatever the house style, though, the home typically has a history of violence and weird goings-on.
  — Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
• The series, in turn, revolves around the family of King Gunter with an ensemble cast, that explores in greater detail the intrigues and goings-on at the Burgundian court.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
• New Orleans is notorious for strange goings-on, but police have drawn the line at walking the French Quarter with a live alligator.
  — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
• Considering that alcohol was almost always implicated in the worst goings-on at the Pig, the lines may have become too blurred.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Noah’s sister Madison Rawlings, 23, who lives in Texas, didn’t attend the bash but remembers following the goings-on via social media and was struck that Noah was with some older partiers.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
• Besides the two Historical Society events, no other events or goings-on at the park are apparent.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2024