How do you use the word "going" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "going": This is never going to end. I'm going to go.

Going Meaning

/ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbpresent participle and gerund of go

verbAttending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.

Sentence Examples

This is never going to end.

I'm going to go.

I would strongly advise against going out on your own.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

move travel exit

Antonyms:

come inactive

CEFR Practice Quiz

The tired baby is ____ to sleep now in the crib.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We are ____ to the beach tomorrow morning if the weather stays sunny and the water is warm enough to swim.

Word Origin & History

Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”). Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Māna-Yood-Sushāī was before the beginning of the gods, and shall be after their going. […] After the going of the gods there will be no small worlds nor big." — 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:

"But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]" — 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

"His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 34:21:

"Craig: Did you look at Tudor life? did you do a lot of studying about that? Natalie: Yeah, I was really geeky about it, I read every single book that was going." — 2013, Natalie Dormer, interview on, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson:

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