Meanings of tidal bore in английском

Politicians, capitalists and officials are flotsam bobbing upriver on the tidal bore of invention.

Still the storm coursed northward like a horizon-spanning tidal bore.

The "secret supermoon" in September will lead to an even bigger tidal bore.

The surge struck the cliff like a tidal bore and was pushed upward, bulging, rising.

A tall bulge of water like a tidal bore, but fast, faster than any wave he'd ever heard of.

With high water on the river and with a low tide this was all the tidal bore we would see.

A tidal bore is when a wave travels up a river in the "wrong" direction, against the current.

This causes a tidal bore to roll up the Colorado, and from all reports it was something to be avoided.

More than 30 people were injured by a tidal bore in the Qiantang River in the eastern Zhejiang Province of China.

But the dimensions of the disaster became appallingly clear as Honor's fire smashed over his ships like a Sphinx tidal bore.

In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend upstream.

We might pass the ranch, or be carried against a rock-bound coast, or find difficulty in landing and be overwhelmed by the tidal bore.

We stopped a little after 9.30 A.M. Now that we were nearing the Gulf we were sure there would be a tidal bore.

British Columbia, Canada The Qiantang Tidal Bore overtops its banks in China Low Tide Tsujuaq, Canada in the Arctic Monastery at Mont St. Michel, France.