Sentence example with the word 'onrush'

onrush

advance, axial motion, confluence, descent, flight, inflow, outflow, reflowing, rush, stream, undercurrent

Definition n. (military) an offensive against an enemy

Last update: September 15, 2015


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By 100 m.; and to concentrate the French army unknown to, and unobserved by, the allies, within striking distance and before they had moved a man to meet the onrush of the foe, was unthinkable.   [Please select]

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There was an onrush of blue-bloused porters, with metal plate numbers on their arms.   [Please select]

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Then he looked at the boy, and noted Dick's hero-effort to choke back the onrush of babyish sobs.   [Please select]

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He closed his eyes, living in the suggestion, and his spirit sped forward with the onrush of the train.   [Please select]

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The emperor, refusing to survive the city which he could not save, fell in the onrush of the Janizaries.   [Please select]

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Simultaneously the lava streams redoubled their onrush, and men, women and children fled precipitately toward the sea.   [Please select]

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He looked at the hillside, the woods, and the sky beginning to grow chill with the onrush of twilight.   [Please select]

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