A wave caused by an incoming tide traveling up an estuary.
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Examples for "eager "
Examples for "eager "
1 Democratic lawmakers were eager to attack health insurers during the overhaul debate.
2 However, others hang about waiting in anticipation, eager to continue the night.
3 To think others shall be just as eager , and we quite indifferent.
4 Modernising armed forces eager to share burden of defending Europe's global interests.
5 With international prices at record levels, local producers are eager to export.
1 Its leap bore it to a point far short of my position.
2 Both governments bore a large share of the responsibility for what happened.
3 Others said his comments bore the risk of undoing decades of peace-building.
4 Prime Minister Jean Castex said it bore the hallmarks of Islamist terrorism.
5 The cars bore their national colours, and several of them carried ladies.
1 He knew the maelstroms and the aegir that swept into northern fiords; the thunder and wind and tempest; the coves, safe harbors and retreats.
2 He appears to have stood in pretty close relation to AEgir .
3 There was peace in that country then, and Aegir sorrowed, saying:
4 And then he told Siegfried a story of AEgir and his gold-lit hall.
5 The Dwellers of Asgard, gathered together in the hall of Ægir , waited for Odin.
1 A large wave like an eagre , diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening to submerge the lower levees.
1 Politicians, capitalists and officials are flotsam bobbing upriver on the tidal bore of invention.
2 Still the storm coursed northward like a horizon-spanning tidal bore .
3 The "secret supermoon" in September will lead to an even bigger tidal bore .
4 The surge struck the cliff like a tidal bore and was pushed upward, bulging, rising.
5 A tall bulge of water like a tidal bore , but fast, faster than any wave he'd ever heard of.
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