What is "surges"

Usage examples of "surges".

The brook spills out onto the roadway and he is wondering whether to take off his shoes and socks and roll up his trousers when in the space of a minute the level surges to his chest.

Patiently he explains the Barrier is for defence against surges, exceptional flooding brought about by storms in the North Sea.

At Tate Modern, water surges over the river wall, funnelling down the wide ramp to the lower floor level.

Water surges over their heads, then suddenly drops again leaving them gasping in total blackness.

Outside the glass, the swollen river surges on between darkened banks, while to the east an ominous glare hangs over Docklands.

Bottled up in the concourse, with only narrow passages to escape through, the floodwater surges to lethal heights.

These are based on naive scale-up of well-documented surges in this region.

Storms and surges are obvious tragedies, near-instant death for some civilizations.

Clouds of electron gas around a Bell usually meant current surges in the Corestuff hoops.

In the back of his mind, he wondered if each of the surges marked the departure-or arrival?

Picard revealed that a second pair of energy surges had been detected from roughly the same areas of Krantin that had produced the earlier surges.

Commander Riker will now reconsider the decision to not conduct a search of the areas in which these energy surges originate.

I have difficulty believing that these particular surges have any relationship to the Plague.

All I know is that he is very fearful of something, and that fear was triggered or made worse whenever either the ships or the energy surges were mentioned.

A been patrolling the area indicated by the surges nearer the city since delivering Khozak and the others.