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 "
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 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 .
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 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 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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