Sentence examples for was soon approaching from inspiring English sources

We had to eat dinner before sundown, since the 25-hour fast was soon approaching.

"It was tough conditions and I wasn't able to do that". The match was scheduled first on court 17 at 11am local time but the temperature was soon approaching 30C, and Watson suffered with cramp in her hand.

When a drought gripped the region in the late 1920s, Orlando Walker, Bob's great-grandfather, remarked in the local paper that the age of irrigation in farming was soon approaching.

Eielson returned to North Dakota but was soon approached by Wilkins about using aircraft for polar exploration.

There were no signs of dog walkers, though I was soon approached by a man who offered me a chance to see "Setúbal's most famous residents".

Ades, whose services include hands-on fashion advice, was soon approached by Melody Yun Xie, a first-year vocalist in the master's-degree program.

He got off at Battery Park and was soon approached by a woman looking for directions to the British Memorial Garden, for victims of 9/11.

But plans changed: with a partner, Bob Appel, he opened a small coffee-and-tea shop on Houston Street and was soon approached by the keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, who wanted to book musicians there.

This became a valuable asset when war with Japan loomed, and he was soon approached by the US navy with the offer of a commission if he would learn Japanese.

And for me, that time is soon approaching," Hatch said.

The clock is ticking, and the 2018 elections are soon approaching, so why the inexplicable timing?