Sentence examples for terrifying height from inspiring English sources

Trying to cram all this movement into progressively shallowing waters is part of the reason for the terrifying height increase as a tsunami approaches a coastline.

The huge wave, after traveling at hundreds of miles per hour, entered the narrow bay, and as the shoaling beach slowed down the leading edge of the wave, millions of gallons of water began piling up behind, until the wave reached the astonishing and totally terrifying height of 135 feet, as tall as a 10-story building.

Not only did her notoriety estrange her from her family, but it earned her death threats from men in Lebanon, as well as from the Islamic State, then at its terrifying height.

Some have fallen to their death from terrifying heights.

Unfortunately, it took a few days, and that damn war, another damn war, had already started, and the racism that I'd seen taking off around the second intifada, at the end of 2000, was reaching terrifying heights.

In the current production, which is simply and knowledgeably directed by Fugard himself, the humor is taken to terrifying heights; the brothers are bound together by a few grim jokes, chief among them Zachariah's quest for a woman.

Their two extraordinary children - a fiery, phoenix-like daughter and a watery, fish-like son - are both destined to share the valley's fate and so redeem it: she is the root of the mountain, the explosive heat beneath its crust; he will swim where the eagles once cruised, at terrifying heights in flimsy air.

These monster waves reached terrifying heights of roughly 2 centimeters, the authors wrote.

Close up, it's terrifying: the height of the top board (10m, or slightly taller than a typical two-storey house), the tippy-toeing on the edge, the way Daley appears to come close to hitting his head on the board as he comes down, the complexity.

The show has tackled what happens when you can record and revisit all of your memories (spoiler: nothing good), how dark rating your interactions with everyone you meet might be, and pushed the conception of virtual reality to a profound, terrifying new height.

Donald Trump would thus take isolationism to terrifying new heights.