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
  • There are a number of third-party events and other goings-on held around the city.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Cody couldn’t get enough of the goings-on at the station when the two would stop by to drop off cassettes.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • Stands to reason why the mom of four would want to keep her goings-on a little more under wraps these days.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Its motion-detection alerts put you right in the center of any goings-on.
    — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 4 May 2024
  • On the other, this seldom has an impact on the movie’s larger goings-on.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 24 May 2025
  • 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
  • Aristotle grew obsessed with mapping the goings-on of the watery world.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank june 12, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
  • The goings-on in sports media are often discussed like a major sport unto themselves these days.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • For a summary of all the goings-on at UMG, scroll to the bottom.
    — Marc Schneider, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Others have covered the goings-on for decades, getting to know the people and the neighborhoods.
    — Rich Exner, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • The early ones bolster our sense of the Freemans’ routine, showing the goings-on on the farm.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
  • Some of those unanswered questions involve the characters’ goings-on outside of work.
    — Andy Swift, TVLine, 21 May 2025
  • Welcome to December and all of the holiday goings-on.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 3 Dec. 2025
  • But Jen maintains the goings-on in her own kitchen are significantly less refined.
    — Julie Jordan, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2026
  • Last but not least, this week is Marty, a 5-year-old cat often found supervising the goings-on around the house.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
  • The novel’s intimacy serves as an emotional call to the reader and propels the story as much as the goings-on do.
    — Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
  • What’s got Amazon so excited about the goings-on at Anthropic?
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 25 Nov. 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
  • After that, in the twilight realm of the understory, the goings-on are handed over to fungi far older than the tree species themselves.
    — Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Their infant son Happy who reacted to the goings-on with facial expressions and an off-camera voice.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Whatever the house style, though, the home typically has a history of violence and weird goings-on.
    — Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
  • It must be remembered that Foreman’s work was primarily concerned with the goings-on inside his head—not yours.
    — Andrew Lampert, Artforum, 1 May 2025
  • You could be forgiven for ignoring the recent political goings-on in Iowa.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
  • Did the upstairs house potentially illicit goings-on?
    — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Ewa also relates the goings-on that day to police in a cellphone video capturing sister Kaja being put in handcuffs.
    — Phoebe Eaton, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 26 July 2023
  • 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

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