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Significados de undertow em inglês

The seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore.

Uso de undertow em inglês
1
I've complained that when the crisis comes we react to the undertow.
The Tyranny of Weakness
2
It started in a sombre way but with no undertow of despair.
The Irish Times
3
They are ahead of the cask-theydart forward-theundertow has got them.
Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War
4
He was almost within her reach, when the undertow swept him back.
Tales and Sketches / Part 3 from Volume V of The Works of John G...
5
Then, like the undertow of a big wave, the reaction caught her.
Mary Wollaston
6
Slowly, fighting the undertow, he made his way back to solid ground.
The Mantooth
7
I felt sleep pulling me under like the undertow of the surf.
Living dead in dallas
8
Waves of coal standing immobile against the undertow of the sandy tide.
Grand junction
9
Already she felt it, the dark undertow of magic against her skin.
Street magic
10
Gran refused, fearing undertow in the swells breaking white on the sand.
Bones to Ashes
11
Swings between sectors continue to generate a powerful undertow in otherwise tranquil markets.
Reuters
12
She would never hear him speak again without a sense of that undertow.
What alice knew: a most curious tale of henry james & jack the r...
13
Only later do you twig an undertow of hope and hurt.
The Guardian
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By this time he was fathoms deep in the reactionary undertow.
The Price
15
I swirl along in the undertow, wondering what I've let myself in for.
Equoid
16
The time you got caught in an undertow and almost drowned.
The missing
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