onrush

noun on·rush \ ˈȯn-ˌrəsh , ˈän- \

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

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
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.

— joshua partlow, Washington Post, "How a new kind of protest movement has risen in Venezuela," 3 June 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

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