How to Use tsunami in a Sentence
tsunami
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And so Chris: that should keep the tsunami at bay, even like.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 10 May 2022
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The idea was that the leg was presumably washed away in the tsunami.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Apr. 2023
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And then it got caught in the tsunami of them breaking up.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 8 May 2024
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The ring shape also protects it from the threat of a tsunami.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 June 2023
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The tsunami waves reached up to 100 feet high in some areas.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
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More than 250 people were killed by the quake and tsunami.
—CBS News, 29 July 2021
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Then, a tsunami more than 50 feet tall crashed onto the shore.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
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The September 2023 photo shows the scarring left by the tsunami on the face of the glacier.
—Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
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The avalanche and tsunami were large and forceful, but ephemeral.
—Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
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Afraid of bad news looming like a tsunami at its crest.
—Sean Keeler, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2024
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Check out the exhibits, take the tour and hear the tale of the 1964 tsunami that swept across the city and stranded the lighthouse keepers in the tower.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
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Like a tsunami in Haiti Beryl did not spare anyone in its path, not even Haiti.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 4 July 2024
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The tsunami churned up elements such as iron and brought them to the surface.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
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The full effects of this tsunami are just emerging and could have a large impact.
—Nick Boniakowski, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
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The effort failed, of course, but the debt tsunami may force the issue sooner rather than later.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
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Then what appears to be a tsunami of Omicron hit the country.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2022
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On my first day, there was an earthquake in Tokyo with a tsunami warning.
—David Qu, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
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Americans tried to heal Newtown’s pain and their own with a tsunami of cash and goods.
—Elizabeth Williamson, The Atlantic, 2 June 2022
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In the play, Kisa was gone when this tsunami hit and felt a lot of survivor’s guilt and began thinking about her own place in the world.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
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Why was the 1964 arrival of the Beatles in the U.S. a pop-cultural tsunami?
—Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
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And there's a vastly lower chance of a landslide causing a tsunami big enough to reach the coast of the United States.
—Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2021
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It’s been a roller coaster, a tsunami, an earthquake and Christmas, all wrapped in one.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2024
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His tsunami of lies about the virus confused and misled people.
—Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 4 July 2021
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They were not affected by the quake or the tsunami that followed, and wouldn’t be by future ones.
—James Conca, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
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There is no threat of a tsunami as of now, outlets reported.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
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When the next storm comes, Miura told me, the river will start to climb—slowly, more like a rising tide than a tsunami.
—Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
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The Fukushima meltdown took place in March 2011 when a massive earthquake caused a tsunami that damaged the plant on the east coast of Japan.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 8 July 2023
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The tsunami is coming, and brands and retailers need to ride the wave of platforms like TikTok Shop.
—Jon Bird, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
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And that’s the truest Black American game of all, finding a way to exist and thrive in a tsunami of contradictions.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 12 Feb. 2025
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No one could have foreseen the inflationary tsunami that swept across the land, raising the prices from eggs to hotel loans dramatically.
—Daniel Berman, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
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