tidal wave

The coronavirus has wreaked havoc with so many lives and livelihoods over the past 12 months that it would be foolhardy to suggest the shuttering of a musical is anything but a single bad ripple in a tidal wave of misfortune.

Parents, in particular, are constantly battling the tidal wave of kids’ clothes, toys and now schoolwork and supplies that threatens to take over every surface and room.

'A tidal wave of need'Since the pandemic, school districts and states have tried to beef up resources for young people in myriad ways — though nowhere do officials say what they are doing is enough.

The finding is adding to concerns about the stability of a financial sector that already is facing a potential tidal wave of $99 billion in bad debt due to the pandemic.

If the conditions are right, heat from the gushing tidal waves could exceed heat from Jupiter.

In "Pamela 1" Louie wades deeper into the gender pool, doubtlessly inviting a tidal wave of backlash.

Tempest, hurricane, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, or Big Bang?

But the public indignation that was slow to rise at first is now coming on like a tidal wave.

In the primaries, Jeb Bush just might be drowned in a tidal wave of tea.

But this tidal wave of systematic brutality has resulted in only 30 convictions.

A tidal wave rolls landward, and twenty thousand human beings are drowned, or crushed to death.

Each time the tidal wave sweeps in toward the shore it urges the finer particles of sediment along with it.

The mighty conflict of ideas had swept round the globe like a tidal wave of the ocean.

"It must be the tidal wave that Phyllis spoke about," thought Patty.

The huge tidal wave that swept McKenzie and his men to their graves in the chilly depths of the Atlantic did more than that.