comber
Example Sentences
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Yet the wave of complaints against the way CWA was run was only a mild ripple compared to the comber of complaints against the plan to stop running CWA altogether.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its normal bow wave, increased by the pressure of the turn, grows into a foaming comber.
From Time Magazine Archive
Car dealers complained that the spring buying wave had been a ripple instead of the hoped-for comber.
From Time Magazine Archive
His spinnaker ballooning firm and white, Sturrock caught a great, wind-driven wave under his stern and rode it like a surfboarder on a Pacific comber.
From Time Magazine Archive
I clambered fore and aft my hulk until a comber split her, keel from ribs, and the big timber floated free; the mast, too, broke away.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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