Sentence examples for surge hit from inspiring English sources

They were still in the living room when the surge hit.

Her mother was in an evacuation centre when the storm surge hit and flooded the city.

When the surge hit last summer, immigration courts there were already short two judges because of retirements.

Hundreds of seal pups which had been feared dead after a tidal surge hit the east coast of Britain have been found alive and well.

More than eight thousand people died in Britain's Great Storm of 1703, as did fifteen thousand grazing sheep when the storm surge hit the River Severn.

The sandbagging "really didn't match up with where this storm surge hit us in Newark Bay," he said in a telephone conference call with reporters on Tuesday morning.

When a storm surge hits a flood barrier, for instance, the water does not simply dissipate.

Gold continued its surge, hitting $1,049.70 an ounce, a record, before settling at $1,044.20.

Yet just as a hurricane-fueled surge hitting New York City at high tide during a full moon is rare, rare is not impossible.

Christine will be safely in Canterbury, babysitting four of those grandchildren, when the first surge hits, while her husband will take what action he can.

Storm surge occurs when winds pile water up as it approaches land, and many factors — including the contours of the seafloor, topography of bays and inlets and the stage of the tide when the surge hits — can affect it.