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Meanings of undertow in English
Usage of undertow in English
1
I've complained that when the crisis comes we react to the undertow.
2
It started in a sombre way but with no undertow of despair.
3
They are ahead of the cask-theydart forward-theundertow has got them.
4
He was almost within her reach, when the undertow swept him back.
5
Then, like the undertow of a big wave, the reaction caught her.
6
Slowly, fighting the undertow, he made his way back to solid ground.
7
I felt sleep pulling me under like the undertow of the surf.
8
Waves of coal standing immobile against the undertow of the sandy tide.
9
Already she felt it, the dark undertow of magic against her skin.
10
Gran refused, fearing undertow in the swells breaking white on the sand.
11
Swings between sectors continue to generate a powerful undertow in otherwise tranquil markets.
12
She would never hear him speak again without a sense of that undertow.
13
Only later do you twig an undertow of hope and hurt.
14
By this time he was fathoms deep in the reactionary undertow.
15
I swirl along in the undertow, wondering what I've let myself in for.
16
The time you got caught in an undertow and almost drowned.
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Undertow through the time
Undertow across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common