Sentence examples for wave struck from inspiring English sources

"Head to higher ground!" two of Sato's employees wailed for most of the 32 minutes before the wave struck.

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.

For a planar shock wave striking the plate, the new results enable the structural analysis to be decoupled from an analysis of shock propagation in the air.

But until a sound wave strike the far side of the balloon, that other side has no idea the former side has been whacked.

Ultrasonic cleaning is modeled as a plane wave striking a sphere at the interface between a solid and a fluid (an axisymmetric fluid-structure interaction problem).

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.

They were listening for the faint ping of a gravitational wave striking the bars like a tiny mallet hitting a huge xylophone.