onrush

noun on·rush \ ˈȯn-ˌrəsh , ˈän- \

|Updated on: 27 Jul 2018

Examples: onrush in a Sentence

Definition of onrush

1 : a rushing forward or onward

2 : onset

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onrushing

play \ˈȯn-ˌrə-shiŋ, ˈän-\ adjective

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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

Back then, the bricklayers could barely keep pace with an onrush of Irish, German and Italian immigrants.

— tim prudente, baltimoresun.com, "Collapse: The rise and deadly fall of a Baltimore rowhouse," 12 July 2018
By that point the valiant central pair — Laurel Dalley Smith and Ari Mayzick — have joined with the work’s three other couples in an onrush of turns, lifts and near-collisions that break through the stiffness of earlier sections.

— siobhan burke, New York Times, "Review: For the Martha Graham Company, Opposites Attract," 12 Apr. 2018
Too often, skeptics of the mayor’s plan say, that means someone who looks dangerous but actually needs help is met with an onrush of officers who know nothing about him.

— benjamin mueller, jan ransom and luis ferrÉ-sadurnÍ, New York Times, "Locals Knew He Was Mentally Ill. The Officers Who Shot Him Did Not.," 5 Apr. 2018
What is wagashi but a way of making beauty out of the onrush of days, marking each infinitesimal shift in season, each irretrievable inch around the sun?

— ligaya mishan, New York Times, "Sweets as Poignant as Poetry," 14 Aug. 2017
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.

— special to the washington post, The Denver Post, "In “Shtum,” parents wreck their home to find a better one for their autistic son," 26 May 2017
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.

— eli gottlieb, chicagotribune.com, "In 'Shtum,' parents wreck their home to find a better one for their autistic son.," 30 May 2017
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.

— special to the washington post, The Denver Post, "In “Shtum,” parents wreck their home to find a better one for their autistic son," 26 May 2017
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.

— eli gottlieb, chicagotribune.com, "In 'Shtum,' parents wreck their home to find a better one for their autistic son.," 30 May 2017

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