ground swell

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ground swell
Noun
  • The substitution was met with huge fanfare and created an emotional tidal wave at Audi Field that carried the Spirit to victory.
    Vitas Carosella, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • This historic change has the potential to trigger a tidal wave that could change the financial landscape of the mobile gaming industry and inspire others to challenge the status quo.
    William Jones, USA Today, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • My friend Sorelle, who grew up in Chicago and still lives there, remembers playing jump rope, roller skating and, on rainy days, making puppets out of clothes pins.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The artist added foot-long extensions that were tied and teased on top of her head, while her ends maintained the shape of the wide-barrel rollers that formed them.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • The brown trout of a lifetime that just sipped your fly can shoot down a riffle and bust that delicate 6-pound tippet.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
  • Here’s a general guideline of the classification of rapids, according to author I. Herbert Gordon: Class I: Easy, slower water with light riffles.
    Morgan Tilton, Denver Post, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • The band, created by a bunch of teenagers in 1984, was starting to make wavelets in its tiny musical niche when its singer, Per Ohlin (nom de metal: Dead), died by suicide in 1991, at age 22.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Pipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore.
    Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025
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“Ground swell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ground%20swell. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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