How to Use riptide in a Sentence

riptide

noun

• In all, nine adults and kids were caught in the deadly riptide.
  — Jonathan Small, Good Housekeeping, 16 July 2018
• One story is that she got caught in a riptide and drowned.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• The anchors in your riptide, the fuel in your rocket ship….
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Feb. 2023
• At the coast, heed riptide and sneaker wave warnings and learn to free yourself from them.
  — OregonLive.com, 22 June 2017
• Aren't lifeguards not supposed to let people swim in riptides in the first place?
  — Madison Feller, Cosmopolitan, 24 May 2017
• White worried a riptide of drugs and gangs threatened to carry Dante out to sea.
  — Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 11 Dec. 2022
• Like a swimmer caught in a riptide, O’Sullivan relaxed and floated back to shore.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2017
• Jevon Lemke, 17, got caught in strong riptides off Fort Morgan on March 25 and has since been presumed drowned.
  — Christopher Harress, AL.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• The waves along the lake don't ebb and flow in the same way ocean waves do, and the uneven sandbars along Lake Michigan beaches worsen riptides.
  — Samantha J. Gross, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
• His newlywed friend, a former lifeguard, grabbed him by the neck, dragged him out of the riptide, and brought him to safety.
  — Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
• As a child, Felipe hurls himself at riptides in the ocean, nearly drowns, and emerges eager for more.
  — Sean McCoy, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• Live music in 2020 was a riptide of fear and confusion, dragging the whole business out to sea.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• Roberta Ursrey was among those caught in the treacherous riptide.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 11 July 2017
• McCormick entered the water after his son and daughter were caught up in a riptide, per the reports.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
• At 58, Hamilton has done just that, while also to resisting the riptide of cautiousness that’s led many his age to hang up their boards.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
• Two of his other daughters — Olivia, 20, and Kathryn, 24, — went out to retrieve her, but were caught in the riptide as well, his wife, Julie Pepperman, told the news station.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2019
• The grandfather stated that both victims did know how to swim, but ended up getting caught in a riptide.
  — AL.com, 14 Aug. 2017
• Many of the beaches along the Hotel Row of their city and San José were private, and the ones that weren’t had strict no swimming or camping policies because of fierce waves and riptides.
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
• Whiting was at Monterey Beach with her kids when her 10-year-old daughter Hayley got caught up in a riptide that took her far out into the ocean.
  — Jeanette Settembre, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2020
• The property is set on one of Cabo’s only swimmable beaches; the riptides and undertow elsewhere are no bueno.
  — David Hochman, Los Angeles Magazine, 21 Dec. 2017
• And so even many who would resist the implications of this transformation are often swept up in the riptide of it.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Nov. 2020
• Harris blamed strong riptides present throughout the weekend for the accident.
  — Harry Sayer, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 June 2017
• The 55-year-old attorney had been swimming with his son, who also got caught in the riptide but managed to swim back to shore, the Brunswick News reported.
  — Bill Rankin, ajc, 13 Sep. 2022
• Exploring the floor of the exhibit hall did not feel like getting pulled along a riptide of other attendees.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• From his wooden perch overlooking the shoreline, Gerry Lambert stood up and eyed three teenagers caught in a rough ocean’s sudden riptide.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 16 July 2017
• Smash burgers are having a moment right now, having been dragged into the spotlight by the riptides of social media.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• But the flooded channels are also subject to strong riptides that will make any rescue effort a challenge.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 2 July 2018
• Expect any preconceived notions about what golf is or isn’t to be washed away in a riptide of new experience.
  — Michael McKnight, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
• And was doing so when one of us wiped out careening down Angel Street on a bike, and another was caught in a riptide at Laguna Beach.
  — courant.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Rip currents, sometimes called riptides, are strong, narrow channels of water moving toward the ocean starting near the shoreline.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024