downrush
Example Sentences
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In the lowest few thousand feet of atmosphere, the difference was very pronounced Monday evening, allowing the downrush of air to accelerate to high speed as it impacted the ground.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021
So naturally the common centers, the poles, cannot accommodate all this downrush of air.
From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth
He held spots to be regions of uprush and of heightened temperature; they believed their obscurity to be due to a downrush of comparatively cool vapours.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
And, striking out across country, they vanished from the earth's surface, entering one of those giant clefts in the clay soil formed by the early downrush of torrents from the hills.
From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver
I had not long to wait, for, as if ordered so for my special accommodation, the mighty downrush of comets with their whirling drapery swung westward and remained aslant for nearly half an hour.
From The Yosemite by John Muir
