Sentence examples for waves strike from inspiring English sources

When light waves strike a diffraction grating, they are diffracted.

The researchers then modeled a scenario in which these storm waves strike the cliffs of Eleuthera.

The waves strike hard surfaces inside the head — teeth, bone, the palate.

Odisha: More than 65 people have died from sunstroke, as heat waves strike across the state, the Orissadiary reported.

At the other end of the canal, roughly an inch inside your head, those waves strike the tympanic membrane, also known as the eardrum, and the resulting vibrations pass through three small bones and into the cochlea, a fluid-filled organ shaped like a snail.

As light waves strike the surface, their direction will change so that they flow more directly down into the water.

Several hours later 9-foot (2.7-metre) tsunami waves struck the coasts of California and Oregon in North America.

The Indian Ocean tidal waves struck elsewhere along the east African coast, killing at least 10 people in Tanzania.

Heat waves struck Andhra Pradesh in 1996 and 1998, but this year has been the worst, state weather officials said.

But the consequences could be high, with deadly waves striking the coastal communities of Long Island, Connecticut and New Jersey and killing thousands of people.

Mr. Rajaratnam, 47, was visiting his native Sri Lanka on vacation with his family when the killer waves struck last month.