Sentence examples for wave strikes from inspiring English sources

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.

When a light wave strikes a plain glass region, a fraction of it is reflected due to the air-glass interface; the remainder is transmitted.

Moreover, the formulations pertinent to the cases where the incident wave strikes an embedded micro-/nano-size circular cavity or a rigid immovable micro-/nano-fiber are also obtained.

When the first wave hits a ship's deck, before its water drains away the second wave strikes.

While u and correspond to the deviation angle when the O wave strikes the lattice plane, corresponds to the actual deviation angle with which the G wave strikes the plane.

Although to date the overall prevalence of severe H1N1 illness has been low, experiences in Mexico [ 2, 3] and Manitoba [ 4] have increased concern that scarcities of critical care resources, such as mechanical ventilators [ 5, 6], will occur if a large second wave strikes during the fall in the Northern Hemisphere.

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.

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.