Sentence examples for wave strike from inspiring English sources

It was screened, that night, not in the lowly cattle-shed of the Sala Darsena but in the lusher surroundings of the Palazzo del Cinema, and Clooney and his co-star, Sandra Bullock, borne thither in Maseratis, did what the high priests of movies are meant to do — smile, wave, strike a sacred pose, and then descend to greet their congregations.

When the mortgage default wave struck, the banks proved able to rig the market to obscure its impact.

She visits and revisits the site of the hotel where she was staying when the wave struck.

Then a cold wave struck last month, drawing down inventories of home heating oil and sending its price soaring.

Reports from Sendai, the city in Japan closest to the quake, suggested that wave heights reached more than 12 feet above normal as the first tsunami wave struck.

Because of the complicated interactions with the coast as wave after wave strikes after traveling great distances, experts said, the impact of a tsunami can be highly variable.

In North America, the first heat wave struck the Southwest, which was scorched in May as the Eastern Seaboard chilled to near-record low temperatures.

The same island is also home to Mau, a boy who was away on an adolescent vision quest when the wave struck.

But when a second wave struck the nursing home and the center still could not identify a virus, health officials reconsidered SARS.

Pedro Paulo Carvalho, the municipal secretary, said a third person thought to have been on the bridge when the wave struck was still missing.

When the natural frequency of the precessing nuclear magnets corresponds to the frequency of a weak external radio wave striking the material, energy is absorbed from the radio wave.