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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The goings-on are infused with desires and affections (though that more tender feeling is tricky) that don’t quite speak their name but are apparent to the audience like fresh gashes and festering wounds.
  — Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Overseers had no easily definable responsibilities, save for reporting to Dalio on the goings-on of the other new groups.
  — Rob Copeland, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Upon her return, however, that Biblical-sounding monicker proves ill-fit to current goings-on, which include a rash of strong-arm thefts.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 21 June 2024
• Twenty years ago, dozens of local semanarios (weekly papers) and all sorts of sports, entertainment and lifestyle magazines covered the goings-on of the city.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
• But having a machine review and classify the goings-on depicted in such footage is a much more difficult undertaking.
  — Dan Greene, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2018
• Because community is an important aspect of the work of these designers, the people that attended the reception were an important part of the goings-on.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2024
• The captain's descriptions of goings-on aboard the ship begin ordinarily enough, but within days of being at sea, the ship's first mate disappeared, and before long the crew and passengers were being picked off one by one each night.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
• But hormonal and chemical goings-on aside, there are also a host of situational factors that accompany the forty- and fifty-something years that could make a person want to, well, rage.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 5 July 2023

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024