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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025