A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current.
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Examples for "rip"
Examples for "rip"
1Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has said the current system rip offs consumers.
2Science ministers come and go without saying a word about this rip-off.
3Last year alone, seven people drowned as the result of a rip.
4Then she saw the rip's true shape...and the beginnings of a solution.
5Someone has opened and used the Magimix rip-off from the late 90s.
1He fought his way out of the riptide and redirected his thoughts.
2Often he would heave all this out in the same rambling riptide.
3They think he must have been caught in the riptide and plunged under.
4You were supposed to do something to get out of a riptide-butwhat?
5And then the distant zeppelins buckled like red gelatinous creatures caught in riptide.
1These hindrances, when they have become subtle, are to be removed by a countercurrent.
2But by this time there began to be felt in the colonies a countercurrent of protest.
3The Nautilus took full advantage of this countercurrent.
4Unexpectedly a countercurrent befriended us, and assisted by the boats we were soon out of danger.
5An action which takes place against a moving aeroplane, by a sudden gust of air or countercurrent.
1I felt a crazy-making crosscurrent of emotions whenever I stepped onto campus.
2Johnny trembled, as if he'd been hit by a crosscurrent of winds.
3His eyes were locked on the boat, which Carson was paddling crosscurrent toward them.
4It had somehow come through all the bends and curves, and here must have caught a slight crosscurrent.
5A few more steps, and a crosscurrent of winds snatched the cap and lifted it off the person's head.
1What he saw may have been a tide rip instead of a shoal.
2Or an indication of a strong current or tide rip.
3Behind them the Invigorator rocked and swayed like a small boat in a tide rip.
4We had just learned that a tide rip separated the two sides of the island.
5Heavy tide rips occur here also.
6We idly watched a lone white oarsman pulling strongly against the wind through the tide rips, evidently bent on exercise.
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