make waves
Example Sentences
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The top remaining recruit in the 2023 class, Robinson gives the Trojans yet another dynamic weapon that could make waves in Riley’s offense as soon as this fall.
From Los Angeles Times
She and her sisters Linda, Maureen, Anne, Coleen and Denise, who formed their singing group during the 70s, have had a string of hits including 1979's I'm in the Mood for Dancing and Don't Make Waves.
From BBC
In the early 1960s, she began to make waves in the dance field by incorporating movements that weren’t part of a traditional dance vocabulary.
From Los Angeles Times
While Mr Music Man was serenading his homeland, a young northern Ghanaian, Rocky Dawuni, of royal heritage, was beginning to make waves on the global reggae scene with the 1998 hit In Ghana.
From BBC
Foreign ploys routinely make waves in Washington, from China allegedly looking for sway at a think tank connected to President Biden to a wealthy Russian allegedly compromising a former senior FBI official to do the bidding of the oligarch.
From Washington Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
