Sentence examples for up a wave from inspiring English sources

The country's deadliest cyclone, in 1970, whipped up a wave that engulfed Chittagong.

Thanks to pumped-up credit, we enjoyed household finances that seemed wonderfully solid as housing prices rose, only to set up a wave of foreclosures and joblessness.

As the bus came by it kicked up a wave of water from the puddle and drenched the pair head-to-toe.

It takes great strength and balance to shoot up a wave face just as it's pitching over, bank off the lip, and then do a sharp U-turn.

The leader of popular protests in Zimbabwe has been charged with inciting public disorder as authorities move to break up a wave of opposition in the unstable southern African state.

Four American soldiers were killed in central Iraq on Thursday night and Friday as insurgents kept up a wave of attacks begun after the capture of Saddam Hussein on Dec. 13.

Global giants are bulking up amid a wave of industry consolidation.

Everyone is swept up in a wave of late-onset kinkiness.

THE PLAYBOY CLUB (NBC, Monday) Fifty years ago TV was caught up in a wave of nostalgia for an earlier, sexier era.

But the news from places like Montgomery and Saigon kept washing up like a wave on her manicured front lawn.

It's a thin German pancake that curls up like a wave on the edges and is sprinkled with lemon juice and sugar.