onrush
Example Sentences
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Before we face that onrush, we first need to deal with the large volume of waste we’ve already produced.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 6, 2023
Last month, a pre-monsoon flash flood, triggered by an onrush of waters from upstream India’s northeastern states, hit Bangladesh’s northern and northeastern regions, destroying crops and damaging homes and road network vastly.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
To try to compensate for the onrush of new users, Top Shot made lots of new Moments.
From The Verge ● Jun. 7, 2022
With both urgency and restraint — a tumbling onrush of thoughts, a pointed pause — she swept us into the rhythm of her thinking, the meter of her mind.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
It was a jaw-cracking, lung-bursting yawn that lasted almost a minute, or felt like it and for all that Lyra struggled, she couldn’t resist the onrush of sleep.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
