Sentence examples for high surge from inspiring English sources

But people were killed instead by a 5-metre (16-foot) high surge of water which flooded the structure.

The overhead line has a high series inductance and relatively low shunt capacitance that leads to a high surge impedance.

The drivers troubleshoot insurance plans and used cars, try to read the tea leaves on Uber announcements, commiserate when they all wake up to a new (usually unannounced) fare cut, or celebrate successful days of catching high surge fares.

He recalled that after Hurricane Ike struck the Texas coast in 2008, FEMA paid for signs in the community of Clear Lake, near Houston, that were intended to tell homeowners how high surge waters from a major storm would rise there.

By this design, not only the active deactivation of the costly IGBT crowbar, replacing the passive crowbar for this ability, can be achieved with the more cost-effective SCRs, but also the reliability of the circuit is strengthened thanking to the high surge capability of SCR.

Modules 4 and 5 (Table 1b) discuss hospital alarm and preparedness plans, with a focus on in-house and external incidents requiring high surge capacity.

Coastal residents reported not seeing or feeling any warning signs before waves of up to three metres high surged in.

The Nasdaq composite index, which at Monday's close had fallen 48percentt from its March high, surged 274.05 points, or 10.5percentt, its biggest one-day jump, to 2,889.80.

And the number of new home sales has also hit a six-year high, surging by 18.6% to an annual rate of 504,000 new homes in May.

The shock sent a series of giant waves – some 66ft high – surging across the Indian Ocean, some at speeds of up to 310mph an hour.

Internet-related complaints to the industry ombudsman have hit a five-year high, surging by more than a fifth between July 2015 and June 2016.