Sentence examples for hit a wake from inspiring English sources

Today, False Creek, which got off to a fast start and was in contention with Shun De 200 meters into the 640-meter course, hit a wake and took on several inches of water, which slowed it enough to let Shun De pull away.

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Keeping your balance while standing on a surfboard that is being hit by a wake from more than one direction is wholly exhausting, so when, at hour's end, I sidled up to the Dive Winnipesaukee dock, I was in a bit of a mood.

All they have to do to make a call or send a message in the middle of the night is visit one of three wireless gadgets mounted in central locations, and hit a red button to "wake up" the base station.

A successful deal on the pipelines would do much to repair Anglo-Icelandic relations, which hit a low in the wake of the 2008 Icesave scandal, during which the Icelandic government refused to honour a promise to guarantee the deposits of hundreds of thousands of UK savers when the bank behind Icesave, Landsbanki, failed.

The horn blows out a 76 dB tap or you can hit a 96 dB blast to wake sleepy drivers out of their texting stupor.

The governor's veto bolstered gun control advocates' hopes that the recent push among a handful of states to allow people to carry guns on college campuses may be hitting a roadblock in the wake of a fatal shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

The Airbus had hit the wake of a Boeing 747 that was about five miles ahead of it, which is considered a safe distance.

A few seconds later, the A-300 hit the other wake.

The sale was his most lucrative yet, in the wake of Amazon stock hitting a record high last week.

Then the boat hit the wake of Typhoon Lola and started to fill with water.