How To Use Undertow 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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The dangerous undertow means that swimming is not allowed.
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They are outwardly charming but ultimately ruled by darker forces, like the fierce undertow that pulls and drags at the coast of the Breton island where this beguiling novel is set.
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She hit the sandy ground, and got pulled out with the undertow.
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There was now in one place, now in another, a strong _undertow_, as they called it -- a reflux, that is, of the inflowing waters, which was quite sufficient to carry those who could not swim out into the great deep, and rendered much exertion necessary, even in those who could, to regain the shore.
The Seaboard Parish, Complete
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Some people mistakenly call this an undertow, but there's no undercurrent, just an offshore current.
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The narrative momentum is maintained by a flowing rhythm, without analytical undertow or plotting cross-currents that could impede the inevitable, although not predictable, conclusion.
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Already the sea was breaking up the wooden cases, the undertow dragging the barbecue kits and sun-loungers into the deep water.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Struggling against the current, he was overcome by the undertow several times before he managed to swim with the child to where the boys waited.
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I pretended to be absolutely thrilled at the idea of bodysurfing in the freezing North Atlantic, until I was caught by an undertow and ended up facedown in two inches of sandy water, flapping my arms like Curly from the Three Stooges.
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed
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his account had a poignant undertow of regret
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The grainery is where the five titan containers stand rigid with maize and all of this is capped by Botswana sky that dips so low to the earth that you can reach up and touch it, dive in, or sail in its undertow.
Inspired by Mefloquine, perhaps?
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Where the dull thunder and the tossing spray warned us from sunken reefs, we heard the harsh challenges of gulls; where the pallid surf twisted in yellow coils of spume above the bar, the singing sands murmured of treachery and secrets of lost souls agasp in the throes of silent undertows.
In Search of the Unknown
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And, as each wave retreats, there is a vicious undertow.
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The narrative momentum is maintained by a flowing rhythm, without analytical undertow or plotting cross-currents that could impede the inevitable, although not predictable, conclusion.
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It retains a sharp sense of self-worth, but undertows of insurgence and southern sensuality draw the sting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The title track begins with a slow fade-in of sparse acoustic guitar above an undertow of bubbling feedback, as if it is the guitar itself which is summoning those sounds.
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The overall effect, therefore, will be to generate a stronger deflationary undertow.
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But like the undertow of a giant tidal wave, the massive media exposure couldn't exist without a backlash.
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As a wave lifts him he grips onto a rocky ledge and is pulled back by the undertow.
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His presentation of history from the perspective of the ‘camera eye,’ particularly, might best be understood as an attempt to evade the undertow of imitative psychology.
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Sometimes he tells himself he's not going to follow them, but the current is too strong, the undertow too fierce.
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Before they know it, they're caught in the undertow.
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The water then withdraws (the backwash) either as undertow (sheetflow near the sea bed) or in localized currents known as rip currents.
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An undertow that would be random in its search for a scapegoat.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Some people mistakenly call this an undertow, but there's no undercurrent, just an offshore current.
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Yorkshire's most famous soul singer has matured into a handsome, outwardly respectable middle-aged man with a raffish undertow.
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It was a nervous habit she had never seen in him, and Lena felt the guilt come back like a strong undertow, pulling her the wrong way.
KISSCUT
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Regardless of the undertow of danger, Johnnie would not give back the diaphragm case.
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But it's the undertow of precocious sexuality, the child-woman come-on, that's more worrying.
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It was far away, almost out of sight, and the undertow threatened to pull her down at any moment.
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La canzone, scritta da Maynard James Keenan, è il secondo singolo tratto da Undertow, loro album di esordio.
No Fat Clips!!! : Tool – Sober
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He swam across the river easily, even though the undertow beneath could be fatal to someone who was not a strong swimmer.
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Did she lose her head or courage, or misplay her muscular part for a moment, she could be hurled a hundred feet by that giant buffet and left wrenched, helpless, and breathless to be pulped on the coral bottom and sucked out by the undertow to be battened on by the fish-sharks too cowardly to take their human meat alive.
THE KANAKA SURF
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A sprawling double album of many moods, and even the upbeat numbers have an undertow of fragmentation.
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Did she lose her head or courage, or misplay her muscular part for a moment, she could be hurled a hundred feet by that giant buffet and left wrenched, helpless, and breathless to be pulped on the coral bottom and sucked out by the undertow to be battened on by the fish-sharks too cowardly to take their human meat alive.
THE KANAKA SURF
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The undertow here's strong, and it'll sweep you out to sea before you know it.
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The intrusion of the author is part of the book's narky undertow.
La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq – review
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It was like a flood, like being trapped in the undertow of a tsunami.
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Like undertow at a beach, you find yourself being drawn out to places you don't want to be without realizing it.
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Yet they delighted in the constant movement of the ocean, fascinated by the pounding waves and pulling undertows.
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She paused, staring unseeingly down at the blood-smeared rags as a wash of still unaccustomedly vivid memory pulled at her like the undertow of a wave.
Dark Moon of Avalon
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There's been a high undertow and rip currents there.
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It would be quite possible for the shallow boat, affected only by the top current, to be swept away by a ‘huge mass’ being dragged along by the undertow.
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The pull of the undertow can drag swimmers out to sea.
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Amid the laughter, the melodrama and hysteria, this is a play with a terrible, almost frightening undertow of sadness and helplessness.
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Yorkshire's most famous soul singer has matured into a handsome, outwardly respectable middle-aged man with a raffish undertow.
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Raise your arm for help, and float with the current or the undertow.
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The dangerous undertow means that swimming is not allowed.
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Jenny screamed, being dragged under by the massive undertow.
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The pull of the undertow can drag swimmers out to sea.
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There are some rapids downstream, and one of the kayakers seems to get caught in the undertow for a few minutes.
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Undertow", the leanan sidhe story last year's sponsors got.
Thor's Day
