A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current.
A strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore.
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Examples for "rip "
Examples for "rip "
1 Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has said the current system rip offs consumers.
2 Science ministers come and go without saying a word about this rip - off .
3 Last year alone, seven people drowned as the result of a rip .
4 Then she saw the rip 's true shape...and the beginnings of a solution.
5 Someone has opened and used the Magimix rip - off from the late 90s.
1 These hindrances, when they have become subtle, are to be removed by a countercurrent .
2 But by this time there began to be felt in the colonies a countercurrent of protest.
3 The Nautilus took full advantage of this countercurrent .
4 Unexpectedly a countercurrent befriended us, and assisted by the boats we were soon out of danger.
5 An action which takes place against a moving aeroplane, by a sudden gust of air or countercurrent .
1 I felt a crazy-making crosscurrent of emotions whenever I stepped onto campus.
2 Johnny trembled, as if he'd been hit by a crosscurrent of winds.
3 His eyes were locked on the boat, which Carson was paddling crosscurrent toward them.
4 It had somehow come through all the bends and curves, and here must have caught a slight crosscurrent .
5 A few more steps, and a crosscurrent of winds snatched the cap and lifted it off the person's head.
1 What he saw may have been a tide rip instead of a shoal.
2 Or an indication of a strong current or tide rip .
3 Behind them the Invigorator rocked and swayed like a small boat in a tide rip .
4 We had just learned that a tide rip separated the two sides of the island.
5 Heavy tide rips occur here also.
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 - but what ?
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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