riptide

How To Use riptide In A Sentence

• Andrew waded out to try to reach a gun-line, but was caught in a riptide which began to pull him under.
• The mother of a Saugus High Student whose gym locker was painted with a swastika and a homophobic slur on Wednesday is angry and ready to do something to stop the "riptide" of discrimination that has existed in the community for years. Home
• Relax and rationalise your fears, make sure that your instructor teaches you about the water, learn about the effects of currents and riptides.
• Nonchalant references to booms and jibs and kites and cleats and luffs and lees and heeling and tacking and pointing high can leave the nautical ingénue helpless in a riptide of argot.
• It's not the kind of weather that encourages you to jump into frigid waters, especially considering the additional risk of riptides that may carry you out into open ocean, right into the gaping mouths of great white sharks.
• As we sat on the sand, five female instructors talked to us about currents, riptides and the nature of waves.
• The surf was unusually rough, with fierce riptides and waves breaking as high as ten feet.
• Momentum in footy can appear a bit like a riptide: the sea and the shore pounding against one another seem relatively stable with a little give-and-take until you’re suddenly sucked out to sea. On soccer and books and ninjas
• A riptide occurs when water at high tide gets pooled behind reefs or sand bars so when the sea goes out again, the trapped water has to find a channel through which to escape the pool. OpEdNews
• It was like being caught in a riptide - the wind was pulling as hard as the deadliest current. MY BABYSITTER HAS FANGS