The phrase "a surge of something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden increase or rise in a particular feeling, emotion, or phenomenon.
Example: "After the announcement, there was a surge of excitement among the fans."
Alternatives: "a wave of something" or "an influx of something".
It would be easy to dismiss all this as an excess of hokey woo-woo; a surge of something-in-the-woodshed rustic gothic.
They looked particularly pronounced and I felt a small surge of something that I hadn't felt before all of those times standing at the bathroom mirror with other woman shaming my crazy hair and freckles next to the woman with straight blonde hair and Nordic features.
It's easy to ride a surge of enthusiasm when something goes well – a great meeting, a successful funding application or a brilliant hire.
So they are taking to the city's parks, rooftops, gardens and empty buildings over the next four weeks in a surge of activity that truly offers something for just about everyone.
He and his colleagues at the N.R.C. suspected that the fuel was not simply melting down; the concrete-and-steel container, a vital line of defense, was now giving way, releasing a surge of radioactive gas and water — something that had never happened in America.
I remember a surge of adrenalin, realising I had discovered something totally new.
Backed by contractors who erected blast walls around a green zone, the soldiers eventually inspired an awakening among Iraqi tribes that, aided by a surge of extra troops, in time brought something like order.
Mr. Romney's rise was clearly due to his better performance in the first debate, but the poll's director, Charles Franklin, said Mr. Thompson had closed the gap with something else: a surge of negative ads.
For Schneemann, this viral moment isn't just a surge of boredom-induced Internet folly, but something of a feminist revolution.
