Sentence examples for over a wake from inspiring English sources

US Airways Flight 1549 smacked the Hudson River the way a speedboat lands after jumping over a wake — with a thud that rattled teeth and nerves and stunned the cabin silent.

Now, his band was presiding over a wake.

"We just went over a wake," he said Tuesday, "and I got a proper tug from the boat".

α denotes the charge consumed by the platform over a wake-up period (Twi).

Finally, and for sake of simplicity, Equation (2) is true if the luminosity and the average discharge current over a wake-up period are constants (5).

Now, the UNNJ sting is over, but leaves quite a wake: the indictments of 21 "brokers, recruiters, and employers from across the United States who allegedly conspired with more than 1,000 foreign nationals," as the Department of Justice explained, to keep them in the country under the auspices of an ersatz alma mater.

Side by side with these church wakes there existed the custom of "holding a wake over" a corpse.

In a postmortem tour, her body was flown first to Miami over the weekend for a wake that drew thousands of mourners, and then back to New York.

The Seminoles felt they lost their grip on second place with Saturday's 35-6 victoverover a 1-8 Wake Forest team.

Periods of calm followed by an onslaught of turbulence, in whiplash fashion, adversely impacts those caught within the family court system as it often churns like a hurricane over parents and children — leaving a wake of devastated lives, denied liberties and seized property that put many in a place where weathering such conditions become a lifestyle set in constant survival mode.

MasterCard will pay $1.8 billion to American Express, a bit less than the $2.1 billion Visa handed over in the wake of a 2005 Supreme Court ruling against the two firms.Conflicts between BP and its partners in a Russian oil venture may hamper efforts to revive flagging production in Russian fields.