Sentence examples for rising waves from inspiring English sources

State troopers were still using boats on Monday to rescue residents trapped in waterfront homes by the rising waves.

Instead it rides the rising waves, bobbing up again and again, drifting farther away from land it was not meant for, from everything familiar.

People all over the region and the country described rising waves of panic as they tried vainly to reach friends and relatives in and around New York.

The anchor snagged, turning the boat's stern in the direction of the rising waves, causing it to take on water and capsize.

Fully lit, the seven ferry boats — the John A. Noble, the Spirit of America, the Guy V. Molinari, the Andrew J. Barbieri, the Sen. John J. Marchi, the John F. Kennedy, and the Alice Austin — hovered in the rising waves.

As I steered my imaginary ship through the storm, my crew and passengers ever more troubled by the rising waves, I took a captain's pride in knowing that our ship, our family, our fate, was in my hands.

It was them — they were making the sound, riding the waves, clustered heads in the water that called to him, laughed at him from the carcass of the ship — and he was so afraid that his limbs felt heavy and weak, and the rising waves in the distance seemed to put out hands to touch him, and still he couldn't move.

But that policy has been overturned by the rising waves of bloodshed and the mounting demands abroad and at home that the United States do something more concerted to stop the startling slide in the conflict that has seen Israel's largest military action in 20 years.