How To Use Onrush In A Sentence
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Stronger than the real Rianna, strong as the undertow of the tide, as the onrush of the wave.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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Donna Rifkind praised Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge Vintage, $15.95, a fictional "account of the very particular way in which Hungary's Jewish population was decimated by the Holocaust," for its "brilliant use of a deliberately old-fashioned realism to define individual fates engulfed by history's deadly onrush.
The case for an unplugged life
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For example, parents don't teach kids how to calculate the weight, distance, speed and stopping distance of the onrushing SUV.
Teaching kids to stay cyber-safe
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There was a time when I was deeply enamored of Bateson's approach, but I have come to view it as somewhat puerile (but maybe that's just the onrush of mortality, or early Alzheimer's, or both).
Against Darwinism
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In an early big scene in that novel, Sir Arthur Wardour and his daughter Isabella are trapped between the onrushing tide and unscaleable cliffs.
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Sohail's initial flick was blocked by onrushing GB custodian Jimi Lewis.
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The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness.
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She stood up, and felt the sudden onrush of emotion.
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Along with the improved play of the national team, there are other favorable signs heralding the successful hosting of the global soccer festival, such as the onrush of foreign tourists.
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The Francisca is supposed to have been thrown in a massed volley to create certain amounts of mayhem prior to the onrush of the host of warriors.
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Don't, though, whatever you do, call this apparent onrush of girliness feminine.
Karla Black at the Venice Biennale: 'Don't call my art feminine'
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To stem this onrush of disastrous improvisations, conservatives need every resource of mind and heart, every good argument, every creative alternative and every bit of compassionate sympathy for the distress that is pushing Americans in the wrong direction.
Sunday Reading
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Samuel made light work of this scoring opportunity as he lobbed the ball over an onrushing goalkeeper into the back of the net.
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Prehistoric people measured themselves against the small numbers of peers with whom they lived; as did most people in historic times, until the recent onrush of urbanisation.
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By month's end, though, the rapidly shortening days in the onrush to the winter solstice leave the planet setting more than an hour and a half after the Sun.
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The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness.
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In Inertia, a young woman lies on top of a bullet train carriage, her dress ballooning against the wind, in a blatantly Freudian onrush of high-speed elation.
This week's new exhibitions
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'nowness', thrilled and galvanized by the possibilities of onrushing modernity.
NME Features
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Part of the perplexity arises from a sudden onrush of doubt: did we misread the earlier texts, overlook the clues that would explain this surprising volte-face?
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the explosion interrupted the wild onrush of her thoughts
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But even if the opposition get the ball the onrushing Blacks are in a decent position at the breakdown and their opponents will probably have to commit numbers to recycle the ball.
Rugby World Cup 2011: Wales coach Shaun Edwards's tactical analysis
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He moved with impressive grace and skill, angling away from Hernandez's onrushes and countering effectively with uppercuts, straight right hands, and left hooks.
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Croft left a message and went to his club where, like the onrush of a sudden tide, all the talk, now, had turned to the upcoming race.
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In the van were strife and stubborn hand-play, warriors valiant in the weapon-struggle, fearless fighters, bloody wounds and clash of helmets, onrush of a battle-host, as Judah's sons advanced.
Codex Junius 11
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How will Cairo cope with this onrush of humanity?
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At the same moment there was a "halloo" outside, and a woman burst open the door, turning quickly to shut out behind her the onrush of the shower and the biting cold of the wind.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
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In the onrushing, kaleidoscopic chaos of our life there is nothing substantial to hold onto.
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Sundin darted out from behind the net and sent a cross-crease pass to an onrushing Nik Antropov, who missed the puck and went flying.
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The high winds that accompany the onrush of water also have scouring effect on the land.
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Today the waters themselves, the mightiest of streams, the great onrushing rivers and oceans that Prophet Martin and Prophet Amos thought the very standards of mighty justice, of empowered justice, of Eternal justice -- these mighty waters are themselvesbeing poisoned, polluted, raped, reduced to mere victims of unjust power.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Justice Still Denied: My Mini-Sermon at the 'One Nation Working Together' Rally
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Many sadly shake their heads at the situations and circumstances around them, but do nothing to stop the onrushing tides of immoral filth and disease.
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It was as if someone were holding her, forcing her forward towards the onrushing water.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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The structure is less obvious, but on close inspection, it's analogous to the range of sounds; a little murkier, and the distinctions are there, but hidden in the onrush of sound.
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The uncertainty concerning the proper scope of IP rights is magnified by the onrush of technology.
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The onrushing process of globalization—loosely defined as worldwide networks of interdependence—served as a major propellant of integration.
Between War and Peace
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The onrushing prose and stabbing emotional intensity that are Oates 'greatest strengths imbue the volume with compulsive readability.
Dear Husband by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary
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She felt an onrush of tenderness, mixed with amazement and a small serving of guilt.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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By the time you read this, the two days of riots I'm referring to might have swollen into a major crisis -- or they might have been subsumed and forgotten in the din and onrush of mayhem in Libya and Syria, radiation in Japan or whatever's next.
Ethan Casey: Terry Jones' America Is A Dangerous Place To Be
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from the bow she stared at the mesmerising onrush of the sea where it split and foamed
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Today the waters themselves, the mightiest of streams, the great onrushing rivers and oceans that Prophet Martin and Prophet Amos thought the very standards of mighty justice, of empowered justice, of Eternal justice -- these mighty waters are themselvesÂbeing poisoned, polluted, raped, reduced to mere victims of unjust power.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Justice Still Denied: My Mini-Sermon at the 'One Nation Working Together' Rally
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Almost, when he knew the blow had started and just ere the edge of steel bit the flesh and nerves it seemed that he gazed upon the serene face of the Medusa, Truth - And, simultaneous with the bite of the steel on the onrush of the dark, in a flashing instant of fancy, he saw the vision of his head turning slowly, always turning, in the devil-devil house beside the breadfruit tree.
THE RED ONE
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He was asked by the CIA to leave, once the onrush of the revolution seemed imminent.
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The rest was indescribable: riding a meteorite through incandescence, shock, thunderblast, stormwind, night, mountains and caverns of cloud, rain like bullets, crazy tilting and whirling of horribly onrushing horizon, while the noise roared and battered and vibrations shook brains in skulls and devils danced on the instrument panel.
The Rebel Worlds
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To demonstrate the impact of high population growth on the environment, there is no better microcosm than California, which is staggering to accommodate its onrush of new residents.
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Because when George Bush got elected the second time you really felt helpless, and then with Obama there was this onrush of hope and ambitiousness, and then... we've been kind of disappointed.
Ben Evans: John Dunsworth of Trailer Park Boys on Liquor and Politics
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But then the country is also witnessing an onrush of young persons seeking to share India's USP - spiritual enlightenment.
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Nothing is done or said that doesn't feel coruscantly correct, dexterously blending private and public events, and making a one-person play convey so many lives, so much history, such an onrush of humanity.
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Abstractedly she listens as her daughter, standing up straight in an onrush of light at the open kitchen door, talks to a deliveryman.
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Threats of a bomb or a threat on the life of a hostage can't be accepted, but the speed and decisiveness of the onrush might just so distract the terrorists that they are overpowered before a hostage is killed.
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He grabbed at her, but the onrush was too strong: it carried her past him and broke with an explosive crash against the concrete pier.
COMPULSION
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I did not and do not seek a Luther-like emotional trauma and a shattering onrush of new experience.
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The onrush of tears took me by surprise.
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Part of the perplexity arises from a sudden onrush of doubt: did we misread the earlier texts, overlook the clues that would explain this surprising volte-face?
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Some might look back on the hungry years and embrace the onrush of fame with relief, but not our man.
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How do people make sense of the onrush without being submerged by it?
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The newcomer's plum, saccular head nods in the old song of cloths and tatters, drab and sand-stippled, those blowzy streaks of thinned hair swishing about in an onrush of current.
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Like a porcupine holding its ground against an onrushing automobile," he writes, "the 'never retreat' attitude may be suicidal this time.
A Gulf Requiem
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Because when George Bush got elected the second time you really felt helpless, and then with Obama there was this onrush of hope and ambitiousness, and then... we've been kind of disappointed.
Ben Evans: John Dunsworth of Trailer Park Boys on Liquor and Politics
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The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness.
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The onrush of new alloys and manufacturing processes means clubheads twice the size of the original oversize drivers are not merely on the horizon, they're available now.
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As it hit the coast, we could hear the splintering sound of the buildings smashed by the powerful onrush.
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The onrushing animal crashed to its knees as Casca's sword rammed straight through the hide and flesh, piercing its heart.
The Eternal Mercenary
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The permissions I give and am given by the interruptions of my thought in the corner of my room contrive my cadences, showing the line breaks to the onrush of my words.
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But even if the opposition gets the ball the onrushing Blacks are in a decent position at the breakdown and their opponents will probably have to commit numbers to recycle the ball.
Rugby World Cup 2011: Wales coach Shaun Edwards's tactical analysis