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Meanings of riptide in English
Catalan
corrent de ressaca Spanish
corriente A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current.
Portuguese
corrente de retorno Synonyms
Examples for "rip current"
Examples for "rip current"
1
It is believed that the child was caught in a rip current.
2
Plus there's probably a motherfucker of a rip current out there.
3
A rip current had pulled her far out to sea.
4
They were at knee-depth when a rip current pulled them out beyond surf break.
5
These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions, the center said.
Usage of riptide in English
1
He fought his way out of the riptide and redirected his thoughts.
2
Often he would heave all this out in the same rambling riptide.
3
They think he must have been caught in the riptide and plunged under.
4
You were supposed to do something to get out of a riptide-butwhat?
5
And then the distant zeppelins buckled like red gelatinous creatures caught in riptide.
6
She felt like she was caught in a riptide.
7
But the pull was as irresistible as the riptide.
8
Now every hour and sometimes more often, Michael Blake surged through my mind like a riptide.
9
The pounding of my riptide heart seemed hard enough to push me deep under the surface.
10
Four other friends were successfully rescued from the riptide, after a co-ordinated response from the Mozambique Navy.
11
I was about to ask him about his sisters when another thought hit me like a riptide.
12
Is it wrong for me to encourage Dad to swim when the riptide is at its strongest?
13
He looked strangely like Alex Huff-asif he were caught in a riptide he couldn't possibly control.
14
She felt indignation rising up from the pit of her stomach, flooding through her like a riptide.
15
Voices boomed and radios hissed and someone was calling her name but she was helpless against the riptide.
16
For the next few hundred meters, we wormed through a giant traffic jam as if swimming against a riptide.
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Translations for riptide
Spanish
Portuguese
Riptide through the time