Sentence examples for highest wave of from inspiring English sources

Though the statistics on drug abuse didn't justify this antagonism, even at the highest wave of the "epidemic," addiction needed to be seen as foreign, even alien to white people to maintain socio-economic supremacy.

Hurricane Javier brought the highest waves of the summer to southern California.

His right arm flopped from a high wave of greeting and he collapsed into the arms of Mrs Kennedy, who fell unharmed.

The Kaloko dam, on Kauai's north shore, broke in the early hours of March 14, unleashing a 20-foot-high wave of water that swept away seven people — including a 2-year-old boy — while they slept.

Experts concluded that a fault in the dam's wall could unleash a 20 metre-high wave of water on Iraq's second city, wiping away anything in its path.

The last shutdown came in 1995, the same year another irregularly high wave of "outsider" freshman congressmen were elected.

Firms like Parabellum, Bentham Capital and BlackRobe Capital have sought to cash in on the high waves of litigation that has swept across corporate America.

Last year, I wrote an article in this magazine about the Cascadia subduction zone, a little-known fault line that cyclically produces the largest earthquakes and tsunamis in North America — shaking of magnitude 9.0 or higher, waves of a scale and destructive force analogous to the 2011 disaster in Japan.

For others, paradise could be surfing the high waves of Hawaii or strutting in St. Tropez or Miami's South Beach.

High waves of over 5 m (18 ft) struck the island, causing severe beach erosion and damaging subsistence crops.

Along the coast, high waves of up to 16 feet (5 m) forced the closure of all ports in three Mexican states, which affected thousands of fishermen.