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a forceful forward rush or flow
the explosion interrupted the wild onrush of her thoughts
from the bow she stared at the mesmerising onrush of the sea where it split and foamed -
(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
the attack began at dawn
How To Use onrush In A Sentence
- Stronger than the real Rianna, strong as the undertow of the tide, as the onrush of the wave. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
- Threats of a bomb or a threat on the life of a hostage can't be accepted, but the speed and decisiveness of the onrush might just so distract the terrorists that they are overpowered before a hostage is killed.
- The uncertainty concerning the proper scope of IP rights is magnified by the onrush of technology.
- The onrushing process of globalization—loosely defined as worldwide networks of interdependence—served as a major propellant of integration. Between War and Peace
- The onrushing prose and stabbing emotional intensity that are Oates 'greatest strengths imbue the volume with compulsive readability. Dear Husband by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary
- She felt an onrush of tenderness, mixed with amazement and a small serving of guilt. AN OLDER WOMAN
- By the time you read this, the two days of riots I'm referring to might have swollen into a major crisis -- or they might have been subsumed and forgotten in the din and onrush of mayhem in Libya and Syria, radiation in Japan or whatever's next. Ethan Casey: Terry Jones' America Is A Dangerous Place To Be
- from the bow she stared at the mesmerising onrush of the sea where it split and foamed
- Today the waters themselves, the mightiest of streams, the great onrushing rivers and oceans that Prophet Martin and Prophet Amos thought the very standards of mighty justice, of empowered justice, of Eternal justice -- these mighty waters are themselvesÂbeing poisoned, polluted, raped, reduced to mere victims of unjust power. Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Justice Still Denied: My Mini-Sermon at the 'One Nation Working Together' Rally
- Almost, when he knew the blow had started and just ere the edge of steel bit the flesh and nerves it seemed that he gazed upon the serene face of the Medusa, Truth - And, simultaneous with the bite of the steel on the onrush of the dark, in a flashing instant of fancy, he saw the vision of his head turning slowly, always turning, in the devil-devil house beside the breadfruit tree. THE RED ONE