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rolling wave

n. a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore [syn: roller, roll]

Usage examples of "rolling wave".

He stared at the motion, the rolling wave of thick clouds, thought, No, it will never be like that.

Dujek paused to wonder at thatthen the sky ignited, a grey, rolling wave, sweeping towards the third flight.

Suddenly, before he could continue, the ground shook with a long rolling wave.

Those orcs in front, pressed by the rolling wave behind, couldn't hope to slow or turn aside.

Beside him, the old mayor sat quietly, apparently comfortable, hardly jumping even on those occasions when a bouncing stone or rolling wave of dirt nearly buried them.

Juraviel called to the emerald, and Pagonel watched the ground distort suddenly, folding as if it were a rolling wave.

Dujek paused to wonder at that - then the sky ignited, a grey, rolling wave, sweeping towards the third flight.

Walsharno sprang forward, going to meet the rolling wave of attackers, and he and Bahzell were the tip of a wedge, driving into the heart of their enemies.

Legion laughed, and spread its power in a great rolling wave that covered all of Mistport in one long unending scream of triumph.

Like an enormous rolling wave pounding across a human sea, the shouting erupted, a thousand disparate voices slowly coming into concert.

Bennie put the cigarette full out and they thundered across the water with teeth-jarring bumps as they sliced through rolling wave crests.