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Sentence Examples It would lead to a wave of expulsions, ethnic cleansing and regional conflicts. First, there may be an entrepreneurial spirit increasingly abroad in Sweden and its cultural industries that has led to a wave of start-ups. He felt a wave of sadness wash over him again, but he ignored it, like he did every day. When he didn't call again, a wave of sadness washed over me, but it contained a bit of relief. Suddenly a wave of homesickness washed over me, almost more than I could bear. He had anticipated this move though for as soon as she broke the surface a wave of water hit her. Plans to lift prices earlier this year were postponed after a wave of protests. As she launched herself forward with one arm cocked back as a feint, he threw a forceful punch releasing a wave of concussive force. They carried Kharasil up the corridors in a wave of nervous chatter, the ragged sound of a giggle falling obscenely in the narrow space. For instance, in a wave of eight players, the first person to sink their ball would deduct seven strokes from their score. After a while I found myself hit by a wave of fatigue, paranoia and depression, but an hour's kip and a wander round the shops worked wonders. The strike is the latest in a wave of action on regional newspapers across Britain. In fact, the back was so far away from the stage, a time delay on the punchline created a wave of laughter. The restoration of monarchies in 1814-15 heralded a wave of persecution of minorities deemed to be associated with revolution. And suddenly a wave of nausea hit him, so that he had to lean his head against the side of the car and retch. They travel to Denver next week having won 4 of their last 5 and riding a wave of momentum to take on the Broncos. Aviemore snowboarder and world number three Lesley McKenna is riding high on a wave of recent successes. It takes an appreciable length of time for a wave of public opinion to cross the continent. The economy has created a wave of wealth that, despite the recent rollbacks of big stock market gains, has spilled over into a wider demographic. Liveried slaves carried the litter of a wealthy man, and vanished with a wave of his hand after he descended. Show More Sentences Casting his eye down the table, he rudely dismisses his assistant with a wave of his hand. Then just like earlier in the half the Graigue side swept forward in a wave of attacks which yielded a goal and three points. The continuation of economic austerity policies under these conditions has provoked a wave of upheavals throughout the continent. In another image, showing the tangi for the singer, a wave of grief seems to have washed over those present. He wiggled his eyebrows causing a wave of rapid giggling from behind the screen of her room. Merrill Lynch strategist Marty Fridson also warned that the WorldCom scandal could signal a wave of bankruptcies. Suddenly pain seared through his right cheek, bringing back his senses in a wave of madness. Or is she, as some are starting to suspect, a shallow, third-rate self-publicist who has crested to celebrity on a wave of violence and hype? Another neighbour said the murders had sent a wave of emotion through the tight-knit community. Behind this zone of environmental invasion is a wave of cell senescence, death and necrotrophic disappearance. The small door at the rear opened, and a woman, befurred and muffled, came in on a wave of frost. The Romanian Revolution was the most dramatic of a wave of uprisings that ended totalitarian rule throughout Eastern Europe. As I watched, it wasn't a grudging respect for the perfectly tailored and coiffed tribune of the masses that filled me, but a wave of nausea. Why a wave of delayed hurricanes is just the latest in a string of problems for our troubled space agency. The plane stopped off in Thailand, when I suddenly became overwhelmed with a wave of curiosity and maybe just a twinge of compassion. He threw his head forward so a wave of silvery hair covered his sorrowful face. Zander dismissed the statement with a wave of his hand, an almost unconscious gesture. The body count continued to rise as the infiltration team became a wave of efficiency, killing anything that got in their way. Then he leapt into the saddle and spurred the horse to a gallop, and with a wave of his hand, he was gone. Flag fever is unfurling across Manchester as the city is swept up on a wave of World Cup and Jubilee celebrations. Show More Sentences The band surfs along a wave of echoed percussion and slithers of organ whilst Bergsman croons. Ramirez turned over, a wave of water slopping against the marbled side of the bath. The door slid open and a wave of loud music as well as the smell of pizza and over cooked nachos hit them like a brick wall. As she tells her tale she is engulfed in a wave of small-town American self-help psycho-babble. Politicians demanded tough action against knife crime yesterday after a wave of stabbings left two men dead and four seriously injured. Lex felt such a wave of gratitude at being let off so easily that the file nearly fell from his nerveless fingers. We're going through a change right now, thanks to a wave of technical and social change and to the arrival of cheap, networked computers. They are pitch perfect, carrying the audience breathlessly along on a wave of blackly comic repartee. This grey wasteland could only be a breeding ground for a wave of hungry, embittered youth. That deadly combination has let loose a wave of vengeance killings, tribal vendettas, mercenary kidnappings and thievery. Relaxing planning controls over development in the green belt would unleash a wave of unsustainable urban sprawl. Consequently, the intense squeeze on profits has led to aggressive cost-cutting that is fueling a wave of lay-offs. So I took a trip to the website this morning and immediately got lost in a wave of nostalgia. In addition, many have been gripped by a wave of nostalgia for the old east. News of the plan to make Spam popular again triggered a wave of nostalgia at our house. After a couple of polite hellos and a social drink, excuses were made and a wave of relief washed over everyone as they shut the car door. Chievo started in characteristic style launching a wave of attacks on the Roma goal and twice they went close to an early opener. Mexico has produced a wave of big hits and groundbreaking films in the past few years. Real-estate investment rocketed 32 per cent in the year's first seven months on a wave of home buying. The table remained quiet for a few moments, and a wave of uneasiness flowed between the two paladins. Show More Sentences The thought of Nina clinging to Scott's arm and parading him all over school for the rest of the day made a wave of nausea sweep over me. Also tonight, the first death in a wave of rioting and violence that has swept through France. Then, earlier this month, employee paychecks were delayed after a financial rejiggering and a wave of staff layoffs. It is not coincidental that tighter censorship is being introduced amidst a wave of severe cuts to social services. The album ends on a light cheery note and flows into the horizon on a wave of pink fairy dust. And you can bet that if our welcome was anything like that, there would have been a photo op and a wave of planted stories. She had laughed, so close to tears, so close to letting the hollow gaping wound surface and sweep her away in a wave of inexpressible rage. Over the past fortnight, the town has suffered from a wave of vandalism and rowdy behaviour. It is no secret that the present administration came into office on the crest of a wave of popularity, much of it thanks to local press. Shouts and cries and screams filled the room, creating a wave of noise that crashed down on James' ears, leaving him feeling numb and deaf. There has been a wave of early retirement among older teachers over the past five to seven years. This produced strong deindustrialisation and a wave of privatisations, all reflected in the trade unions losing many members. Faced by a wave of support for anti-immigrant demagogues, there is a danger that governments will adopt some of their attitudes. Merja demonstrated how to throw water from the buckets onto the stones, so a wave of intense heat rushed over us. My heart leapt into my throat and started choking me, a wave of heat rushing through my body and leaving goose pimples on my skin. Far from protecting the health of the population, the result is a wave of panic and a pervasive climate of anxiety and despondency. As she opens her son's wardrobe a wave of emotion engulfs her and her expression becomes a mixture of love and anguish. We recall Goethe writing The Sorrows of Young Werther, which set off a wave of suicides in Europe in imitation of the eponymous hero. When he awoke, two hours later, a wave of nausea swept over him. He is now facing pressure of his own, with a wave of strikes by university students and transportation unions leading to rumours that the military was planning to depose him. Show More Sentences By 1815 a wave of canals, docks, port, and road improvements, waterworks, lighthouses, and bridges were establishing the profession of consulting engineer. Within days a wave of criticism was unleashed in the international media. Then the jeep exploded, sending a wave of flame and debris ripping through the front of the hotel and igniting a fire that destroyed most of the building within an hour. In these unpoetical days, a wave of the Switch card does the job. The ladies are rather sentimental in their ideas, and it needed all the firmness of Miss Watkyns to prevent a wave of sloppiness passing over the Society. He was an untried prime minister in 1999 when, in response to a wave of apartment bombings that carved through Moscow, he sent troops into the province. A massive, official protest in June was followed by a wave of strikes and protests by workers, students, anti-nuclear and anti-fascist protesters. With independence approaching, the small community was gripped by a wave of hedonistic debauchery that undermined its pretence at prim parasol-and-petticoat gentility. This has prompted warnings that the disclosure of the real level of bad debt could set off a wave of corporate failures and banking collapses in the following year. They are forgettable not because they are boring, but because the chorus always hits with such a wave of hummable, nostalgic melody that it overpowers them, every time. It is now up to the players who created a wave of sympathy both in the public and in the media to show why their non-inclusion to the camps was an error of judgment. Solidarity formed the East Bloc's first non-communist government in 1989, marking the start of a wave of freedom which saw Marxist regimes fall like dominoes across Europe. And you could see a wave of big breakers roll in off the coast. This launched not only a wave of copycat online beheadings but a new era of AQI online communications. Thus it attracted a wave of cowboy operators to fly passengers and cargo between cities. When I woke up the next morning a wave of nausea automatically hit me. Most obviously, the collapse of communism unleashed a wave of ethnic nationalisms in Eastern Europe which dramatically affected the democratization process. We all clapped politely and a wave of whispers went through the crowd. Having arrived there first as part of a wave of migration from Tahiti, probably in the 9th century, by 1200 they had established settlements in various parts of the islands. Sudanese model Alek Wek drew a wave of applause in a sweeping pink lame opera coat with fur collar, thrown over a silver sheath dress with giant embroidered palm leaves. Show More Sentences Ryan scowled at the young man and shooed him away with a wave of his hand. He felt a wave of homesickness for the dark quiet of the jungle. After the mid-19th century there was a wave of mass migration of poor Europeans to North America, and to other colonies, such as Brazil and South Africa. But the enduring depression led to a wave of negative equity. That set off a wave of criticism of the defense chief's brusque manner. Just as she closed the door she felt a wave of sickness wash over her. In London, crack has been largely blamed for a wave of black-on-black gun crime which last year saw 171 shootings, including 18 murders and 81 attempted murders. Enron turned out to be the first of a wave of similar accounting fraud cases which shattered investor confidence and sent stock markets nosediving downwards last year. Megawati took over the national leadership in July riding a wave of support from a rainbow coalition united against former president Abdurrahman Wahid. He immediately ordered the sequestration of all the rebel lands, triggering a wave of chaotic looting across the country. Far-right groups and clubs sprang up all over the country in 1936 and 1937, amid the New Deal and a wave of labor unrest. Trading stamps proved to be right for the times and swept the nation in a wave of dramatic growth. On the nose there's some stone fruit but also flowers, honeysuckle and a wave of jasmine. When the war began many people were caught up in a wave of jingoism. And with a wave of merchandising almost ready to go, there is every indication of fadish success. The fly personae in these films influenced a wave of black contemporary youth who resurrected flyness and its continuum in hip-hop culture. I feel a wave of hateration washing over me. I can't believe that Mimi's getting a car before I get one. The murder of the Archbishop gave rise to a wave of popular outrage against the King. Beginning in the summer of 54 BC, a wave of political corruption and violence swept Rome. Mary rode triumphantly into London on 3 August 1553, on a wave of popular support. Show More Sentences The conspiracy, known as the Rye House Plot, backfired upon its conspirators and provoked a wave of sympathy for the King and James. Through the Revolutionary Wars, it unleashed a wave of global conflicts that extended from the Caribbean to the Middle East. The depression of 1842 led to a wave of strikes, as workers responded to the wage cuts imposed by employers. There was a wave of slackness, and young men preferred to remain lob-lolly lesser Hindus than to follow their fathers' stern creed. This revived Caribbean trade provided rich new pickings for a wave of piracy. The raids on Guernica and Madrid caused many civilian casualties and a wave of protests in the democracies. The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the ne plus ultra of art. Polish folk music was collected in the 19th century by Oskar Kolberg, as part of a wave of Polish national revival. In the 1910s, a wave of Central American immigrants settled in the Mission and, in the 1950s, immigrants from Mexico began to predominate. The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political unrest through vast areas of the Russian Empire. Foulke's discoveries sparked a wave of dinosaur mania in the United States. The militia must not be confused with the volunteer units created in a wave of enthusiasm in the second half of the nineteenth century. In any case a wave of Mode 2 then spread across Eurasia, resulting in use of both there. Soon, he married a daughter of the Gothic king Theodoric I, and began a wave of attacks on the Tarraconense, still a Roman province. The power of a wave of water released from a tank was used for extraction of metal ores in a method known as hushing. A twelve-year-old in Georgia? A grandmother in Walla Walla? But that's interactive telegaming, and I think it's a wave of the future. As a wave of revulsion spread across the internet, he began to backtrack. In the late 1620s a wave of witch hunts swept across large areas of Germany. Tony Dungy is backtracking and clarifying remarks that has created a wave of media backlash and social media scrutiny. In 2006, Shimon Ben-Chaim, a 35-year-old Jew, threw a pig's head wrapped in a kaffiyah into the mosque compound, sparking a wave of protests. Show More Sentences Lumumba's supporters fled the capital to avoid a wave of political arrests, regrouping at Kisangani. Bagless vacuum cleaner boffin Sir James Dyson yesterday pledged to spend PS1billion on a wave of new products. Will Raul Castro ironically be responsible for ushering in a wave of Cuban ballplayers to the Yankees or other MLB teams in time for next season? The high-definition projection of the gangsta rap icon has triggered a wave of social media debate. Around 25 years ago, amid a wave of militancy, around 300,000 Kashmiri pandits chose to leave the Kashmir valley. This year we'll be featuring a number of breweries from Cumbria, an area where there's recently been a wave of microbrewery start-ups. Horne remembered closing her eyes as a wave of fury swept over her. After a 227-day drought ending with December temperatures above 90, a polar air mass collided with a wave of damp tropical air, condensed it in seven days of cloudburst. Despite the Committee of Grievances, a body chaired by Sir Edward Coke that abolished a large number of monopolies, a wave of protest occurred at the expansion of the system. This was followed by a wave of protest at the patent system. The northernmost part and west coast of the province saw a wave of emigration to America, while some Danes of North Schleswig emigrated to Denmark. At the same time, there is a renewed intensity in the scholarly push for historicization, via a wave of anthologies, conferences, exhibitions, and so on. They used the water to prospect for ore by unleashing a wave of water from a tank to scour away the soil and so reveal the bedrock with any veins exposed to sight. It was a wave of religious enthusiasm among Protestants that swept the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American religion. These were followed by a wave of acts in the 1990s and early 21st century which produced a credible Welsh 'sound' embraced by the public and the media press of Great Britain. Hong Kong's population recovered quickly after the war, as a wave of skilled migrants from the Republic of China moved in to seek refuge from the Chinese Civil War. In the summer and autumn of that year, a wave of riots swept the country. Nelson kept the Jacobins imprisoned and approved of a wave of further executions, refusing to intervene despite pleas for clemency from the Hamiltons and the Queen of Naples. This goes against the current of the televisualization of the Web, where the end-user-defined HTML language is being submerged in a wave of server-defined Javascript. The increasing number of terror incidents across the country has sent a wave of nervousness and edginess, necessitating it for them to purchase arms for their own protection. Show More Sentences The Milk Jugs are kid-friendly, colorful, re-sealable, 8-ounce plastic containers of lowfat white or chocolate milk that feature Ronald McDonald riding a wave of milk. At the same time, a wave of retrophilia started to crest. Clothing companies like Homage came up with unique ways to commercialize the interest in yesteryear. Europe is experiencing a wave of merger initiatives, and, at the same time, a wave of state intervention against market-driven, cross-border takeover bids. As the Lancastrian army advanced southwards, a wave of dread swept London, where rumours were rife about savage northerners intent on plundering the city. After the enlargement of the EU in 2004, a wave of immigrants has arrived from Central and Northern Europe, particularly Poland, Sweden and Lithuania. Examples from Classical Literature And, with a wave of his sombrero, Poke Stover rode off as rapidly as he had come. Khomeini came to power on the crest of a wave of unprecedented popular support and he supplanted a cruel and corrupt dictator. To wallow in such a wave of happiness had never been his before, was never to be his again. The sad successes of that deadly year sent a wave of triumphant Teutonism over the face of Europe. Then, with a wave of his hand, he signified to the boys to run out and play games. And with a wave of the hand he began anew to plunge her into the mesmeric sleep. The other women, too, were worshipers of notability, and Rose knew she had raised a wave of admiration. A nerve impulse is a wave of electricity started and conducted by a nerve cell. At the same time a wave of intense virility seemed to surge out from him and impinge upon her. But with this thrill welled a wave of resentment over what he considered a preposterous imposition. Her heart ascended on a wave of thanks to the giver of song. He was off with a bound, gambolling about her like a wave of the sea. I dismissed my three serfs with a wave of the hand, and went up the beach into the thickets. With a wave of his hand he would speak of a certain bazaar in Hyderabad. As he spoke his last words he had risen suddenly from his seat with a wave of his arm, and there was a general cry of horror. Stone brushed this triviality aside with a wave of his heavy hand. I wailed, gesturing at the Nuit de Tendresse peignoirs as a wave of self-pity broke over me. There is a wave of visual interface companies, including Antarctica Systems, WebMap, and Urbanpixel, that are using cartographic tools for their visualizations. I saw a wave of red come up under the rough stubble on his face. Thursday's assault prompted a wave of solidarity, similar to the outpouring of support that occurred in the wake of a brutal murder of a moneychanger in Sidon late last month. Show More Sentences The 14th-seeded Serb was in control after winning the first set and leading 3-1 in the second but collapsed amid a wave of unforced errors and double faults. Tartar, with a wave of his hand and the deftness of a cat, had already dipped through his scuttle of scarlet runners without breaking a leaf, and 'gone below. Find more words! 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