undertow

Example Sentences

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They took a toll, onerously so, like an undertow at the ocean shoreline that yanks you down into the muddy sand underfoot, and my debt more than quadrupled.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

He did not want to be identified talking about a view that opposed government policy, reflecting an undertow of fear in the country.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2024

Even in simple scenes of the Hösses at work or at play, this chilling aural undertow never ceases.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

The Trio’s tragic undertow is thought to encode reflections on the troubled life of Brahms’s mentor and friend Robert Schumann.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023

Milton, along with everyone else, leapt into the confusion—the black rocks, the sucking undertow, the Mexican beer bottles, the startled crabs.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides