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n. A wave, in the form of a wall of water, formed by an incoming tide funneling into an estuary
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Cook Inlet, Alaska A tidal bore, often simply given as bore in context, is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay against the direction of the river or bay's current.
Usage examples of "tidal bore".
This tidal bore of the Amazon is normally a mile-long waterfall five yards high, which travels upstream at fifteen miles an hour with a roar that can be heard ten miles away.
The first long-range strike against the fleeing Bug starships had roared out, with murder in its pilots eyes, but before they could make contact with their targets, the recon fighters covering the flanks of the attack formations had picked up the incredible tidal bore of gunboats thundering in to the attack.
The first long-range strike against the fleeing Bug starships had roared out, with murder in its pilots' eyes, but before they could make contact with their targets, the recon fighters covering the flanks of the attack formations had picked up the incredible tidal bore of gunboats thundering in to the attack.
If the mechanism worked, Gerswin intended to duplicate what could be duplicated and see if he could wrangle the spares necessary to open another station, the second one powered by natural sources, like the tidal bore in the Scotia area.
And one night, during the tidal bore of the eighth moon, when the Chientang River roared with high waves and there were many visitors in the city, in the hour before the woodblocks and the weathermen's cries, Bold was awakened by a gentle tug on the ear, then the firm pressure of a hand over his mouth.
The advance of the news was like a tidal bore, a surge of celebration growing as it went.
We missed the tidal bore you can get around here this time, mostly, thank God, but there's rocks and shifting sandbanks most of the way from here to Westhaven.
We missed the tidal bore you can get around here this time, mostly, thank God, but there’.
It closed around her and thrust like a chill, turbulent billow, like the solar tidal bore that had drowned Alexander Vlantis.
This time the pain sucked her under like a Sphinx tidal bore, for this time she'd lost her certitude.