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Examples of onrush in a Sentence
a sudden onrush of development in an area that was rural until very recently
Recent Examples of onrush from the Web
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The military career that Ortega, an only child, once considered his birthright — several members of his family have had jobs protecting the socialist government — has been discarded in the onrush of Venezuela’s protest movement.
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No matter the good intentions of the parents or how self-sacrificing their desire to keep their child at home, adolescence, with its onrush of agitating hormones, tends to make home care an impossibility.
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No matter the good intentions of the parents or how self-sacrificing their desire to keep their child at home, adolescence, with its onrush of agitating hormones, tends to make home care an impossibility.
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Meanwhile, GameStop was already preparing for the onrush of fans.
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Yet for all this, the great onrush of the continental cocoa craze is often traced to July 7, 1550, and July 7 is even gaining currency as Chocolate Day.
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First Known Use of onrush
circa 1784
ONRUSH Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of onrush for English Language Learners
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: a strong, fast movement forward
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: a sudden development or appearance of something
ONRUSH Defined for Kids
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: a strong fast movement forward We got caught in the onrush of shoppers.
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