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How to use the word Tsunami in a Sentence?

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It’s like photographing a slow-moving tsunami, it’s often hard to see in the moment, but when two images are put side-by-side, it’s hard not to see the impact the climate crisis is having.

Dmitry Kokh Mittermeier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The tsunami was announced and those who didn't believe it went to the beach to see it.

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
1 year ago

Tsunami waves could be as high as 42 feet at the Seattle Great Wheel and will reach inland as far as Lumen Field and T-Mobile Park.

Washington State DNR

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As the saying goes, what goes around comes around. We live in remarkably stressful and rather apocalyptic times where stress-related difficulties create a tsunami of mental health challenges, when we are kind to others they typically are kind back to us, a positive boomerang effect, that then can lower stress, anxiety, depression, for all of us.

Thomas Plante

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We knew the tsunami was coming, the question was not if this [ economic shock ] was going to reach the other developing regions, but when.

World Bank.Carolina Sánchez-Páramo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

'It's not just another COVID wave, it's a tsunami,' that is how one expert describes the threat heading for the U.S. as the Delta variant continues to fuel new cases and hospitalizations. And the omicron variant spreads as quickly as any virus since the measles. We are already seeing the impact as long lines for COVID tests are forming across New York City, these people lining up to be tested at a mobile testing van all before the van even arrived.

Jim Acosta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Blanco Fracture zone quakes are strike-slip( lateral motions of the crustal blocks on either side, rather than up-down displacement), so it is very unlikely for them to pose a tsunami threat, even if a bigger quake happened, like a magnitude 7.0 for example.

Harold Tobin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we're going to see another huge tsunami of utility shutoffs, winter moratoria are just going to kick the can down a couple months.

Jean Su

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's been like a tsunami wave that continues to hit us each day.

Katherine Hoyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There was a wave of discontent. Gavin Newsom turned it into a tsunami, we just channeled it.

Anne Dunsmore

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The mudslide looked like a tsunami -- it was like a big wave that made a thunderous noise and came crashing down onto the ground, the ground rumbled and the electricity pylons were shaking.

Yuji Shima

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the tsunami of it was what was most surprising -- the rapid escalation and the vitriol of it, students, and I certainly, did not expect that.

Merav Fine Braun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A lot of people are saying that... we knew in February. At that time, scientists and doctors were more or less of the same view, evidently something went wrong, evidently we were hit by a tsunami, and as you know, you're often not aware. In most cases 80-90 % reasons could be external. We don't know. We don't want to blame anybody. We know we're in power, we are responsible. . our focus is now on how we can save lives.

Narendra Taneja

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The volume is humongous, it's just like a tsunami.

Jalil Parkar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It would be no exaggeration to say that since the pandemic began in mid-March, Salvation Army has seen a tsunami of human need.

Kenneth Hodder

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The tsunami of social media that has conquered global communications within a few years has swept away privacy, once predominant, and has laid the groundwork for a new world where everything is public - or is rapidly becoming so - and where everything is transparent - or is about to be.

Maxim Behar

added by MaximBehar
3 years ago

What if there's a tsunami in Taiwan ?

Bret Swanson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Whenever a natural disaster struck, he was there. He worked in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, when the tsunami hitIndonesia, Majd went there to serve others. He also worked with war victims in Kosovo and Bosnia following the catastrophic wars in those countries.

Maryam Kamalmaz

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Basically, the bottom line is this : when there's a storm warning, there's some data that suggests that the rate of pregnancies increase, but actually when destruction happens, like a tsunami, then actually your births go down, so there's a difference in what the impact on society is of any natural calamity or a pandemic -- and the forecast suggests that this is much more serious than a tropical storm. It's a tsunami.

Rahul Gupta

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There was a big bang and there was spray that my eyes started burning, screaming like I've never heard before, and I've described it as a' human tsunami' is the best I could see for about a quarter of a block coming down the street.

Rahul Dubey

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When you are trying to protect nature in a country where 90% of people don't care, it is not just like swimming against the current, it is like swimming against a tsunami, but things are changing...slowly.

Maher Osta

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If you were on a beach when an earthquake struck, you wouldn't just stand there, waiting for the coming tsunami. You would head for higher ground immediately, well, in this case the earthquake has happened. It's time to seek higher ground now, and not hope for rescue later.

Ian Brownlee

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The economic crisis is a tsunami bearing down on American families, millions are already in danger of going under.

Justin Ruben

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This (earthquake) definitely has us on standby here, if there is a tsunami, there are lots of hills.

Andrew Walsh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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