Sentence examples for wave against from inspiring English sources

"The first wave," Rama explains, "was a wave against religion.

For much of the Washington establishment, the opposition Green movement is a faded memory, a protest wave against electoral fraud that was suppressed by the Islamist regime to the point of exhaustion if not extinction.

Yet the wave against Democrats that year was strong enough to carry those newcomers into office and put Republicans in control of Congress for the first time in 40 years.

In "727-727," Mr. DOB's snarling head bounces on an elegant unfurling wave, against layers of sanded colors that encompass the entire spectrum, and evoke ancient screens and Warhol's Oxidation paintings as well as atomic radiation.

Beyond the clear-cut, as the road ran down toward Willapa Bay, we passed the first of the tsunami-warning signs that would keep us company all the way down the coast: a curling white wave against a blue background, chasing a stylized human figure running up a hill.

Yan Nascimbene's wonderful watercolors convey first the chaos of the Oceanarium on the night the staff is preparing for the hurricane, the drama of Katrina's landing (furniture, possessions and cars and houses bursting up into a white wave, against a black sky), and then the serene beauty of the gulf waters after the storm.

It began on June 19 when Ozawa sent 430 planes in four waves against Spruance's ships.

The sound of waves against rocks existed millennia before there were creatures who could hear it.

His mouth hung half open, lessening the pressure from the bells' sound waves against his eardrums.

The only sound was the slap of waves against the old wooden hull.

Conditions were fresh, with building winds whipping up waves against one of the strongest ebb currents of the year.