A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current.
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.
6 Striving for independence from Earth, caught in this crosscurrent of war, our Moon nation was soon reduced to a rabble, scraping for survival.
7 Partly this reflected Pakistan's seeming comfort in an era of growing international crosscurrents .
8 He was picking up additional feelings from Luke, now, new crosscurrents of doubt.
9 Everyone was looking, the room filled with crosscurrents of worried murmuring.
10 They began walking, the wind whipping around them in vicious crosscurrents .
11 I long for the crosscurrents of my Compound house.
12 Chase's shift comes amid crosscurrents in the mortgage market.
13 For a moment they struggled there, fighting the crosscurrents till the air had been displaced.
14 The wind blew hard and cold when he reached the top, buffeting him with crosscurrents .
15 So here we find ourselves once again, lost at sea amid the crosscurrents of conflicting science.
16 Crosscurrents : red and silver sequins flung in handfuls.
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