Sentence example with the word 'undertow'

undertow

affluence, confluence, crosscurrent, downpour, flowing, inflow, mill run, outflow, rockbound coast, sandbank, shallows, surge, water flow

Definition n. an inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling

Last update: July 27, 2015


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The pull of the undertow can drag swimmers out to sea.   [Please select]

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His claims formed an undertow to the resentment of Medina and of the rival families of Mecca against the advancement of the Omayyads.   [Please select]

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Beneath his speech was an undercurrent--or undertow, perhaps--carrying her swiftly, easily, helpless into the deep waters of intimacy.   [Please select]

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A corpse rising saltwhite from the undertow, bobbing a pace a pace a porpoise landward.   [Please select]

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"There's the devil of an undertow settin' along this beach," they told him, "and the water's too cold to drownd in comfortable."'   [Please select]

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His strokes for safety were as bold as was the undertow that ceaselessly annulled them.   [Please select]

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It scares me to see how many of my classmates are already caught in the undertow.   [Please select]

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