Sentence examples similar to hitting cold water from inspiring English sources

Tropical cyclones (including hurricanes) will fall apart as soon as they hit cold water: Their wind speeds die down, though they can still produce a lot of rain.

When these storms do hop the Gulf Stream toward New Jersey, they hit colder water, which serves, in essence, to start killing them off.

I know you're not a fan Suse, but there's nothing like the adrenalin rush of hitting ice cold water.

And when the boiling fragments of liquid magma hit cold air and water they freeze into individual dust particles, driven upwards towards the high atmosphere by the power and heat of the eruption.

As the molten rock hits the cold water it is rapidly quenched, fusing into a glassy material.

He likened the situation to putting a hot pan under the kitchen faucet — as the hot magma hits the cold water it rapidly creates steam.

When the minerals hit the cold water of the ocean, they precipitate as sulfide deposits that are rich in gold, silver, copper, and other metals.

These are all critical skills and issues that grad students must master before they hit the cold waters of post-graduate life.

An "excuse me?" rings out, hitting me like cold water down my collar.

An "Excuse me?" rings out, hitting me like cold water down my collar.

Ask him, for instance, what he really said to first officer Jeff Skiles in the moments after the plane hit the deathly cold water – surely the movie's screenwriter exaggerated his composure just a little – and without missing a beat he'll reply: "It wasn't as bad as we thought".