The phrase "a wave of hostility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden and intense increase in negative feelings or actions directed towards someone or something.
Example: "After the controversial decision was announced, the officials were met with a wave of hostility from the public."
Alternatives: "a surge of animosity" or "a tide of aggression."
Similarly, the crisis has spawned a wave of hostility across the region for the United States, and not only from the crowds protesting in Arab capitals.
In a culture that places a premium on the graceful acceptance of death, the couple faced a wave of hostility, tempered by sympathy for Kim's desire, as she explained it, "not to miss it all".
It's a shame because Murfreesboro is a very nice town to live in". As the US prepares to mark the ninth anniversary of the al-Qaida assault on New York and the Pentagon, the country's Muslims say they are enduring a wave of hostility and suspicion from some of their fellow Americans that they rarely encountered in the years immediately following the 9/11 attacks.
The Greens were able to take advantage of a wave of hostility towards nuclear power.
The case has tapped into a wave of hostility toward the community.
And I suppose we shouldn't discount the possibility that it's a trial balloon that's been floated by Summers' detractors to touch off a wave of hostility towards him.
In other countries, antidemocratic parties are riding high on a wave of public hostility to immigrants.
Since September's attacks on America, Muslims have been hurt by what they see as a wave of undeserved hostility.
The Shabab rode to power in 2007 on a wave of public hostility toward the United States' counterterrorism efforts and the Ethiopian army's occupation of Mogadishu.
A wave of governmental hostility towards ethnic and religious minorities risks undermining the common values of "human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity", in the words of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, upon which the European Union is founded.
Graeme Smith took on a wave of English hostility yesterday as he refused to walk when he was still a long way from a brilliant, clubbing 20th Test century and then he sat with his big shoulders hunched watching lightning flashes light up the storm-laden highveld sky.
