tsunami
Example Sentences
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There was a discomfort similar to waiting for a tsunami — that whatever was coming would change lives, shake institutions and make people question values and principles that they had long held dear.
From Los Angeles Times
“This is what’s giving me such urgency. We need to build the right tools so courts are equipped to deal with this tsunami,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
“We bear the brunt of everything. This is really a layered tsunami of hurt.”
From Salon
A gripping documentary revisits Japan’s combined catastrophe in 2011 of a tsunami and a nuclear crisis—which threatened to become even worse.
The perils of a nuclear disaster seem relatively abstract compared to the very tangible horrors of an earthquake and tsunami.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
