How to Use tsunami in a Sentence

tsunami

noun

• The idea was that the leg was presumably washed away in the tsunami.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Apr. 2023
• The ring shape also protects it from the threat of a tsunami.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 June 2023
• Then, a tsunami more than 50 feet tall crashed onto the shore.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
• The effort failed, of course, but the debt tsunami may force the issue sooner rather than later.
  — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• There is no threat of a tsunami as of now, outlets reported.
  — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
• When the next storm comes, Miura told me, the river will start to climb—slowly, more like a rising tide than a tsunami.
  — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
• The Fukushima meltdown took place in March 2011 when a massive earthquake caused a tsunami that damaged the plant on the east coast of Japan.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 8 July 2023
• There was no tsunami risk because the plates were moving side by side, Pridmore said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• The study says that the tsunami created by the impact was a thousand times stronger than the modern tsunamis caused by earthquakes.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 Oct. 2022
• There still may not be enough younger buyers who can afford to purchase a home when the silver tsunami starts.
  — Bysydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
• An earthquake and tsunami knocked out power at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011.
  — Miho Inada, WSJ, 4 July 2023
• This case was heartbreaking and tragic and was a tsunami of emotions.
  — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2022
• Gilbert wasn’t the first author to delay her novel when faced with a tsunami of criticism.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 27 June 2023
• This resulted in a tsunami with waves reaching 132 feet high.
  — Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Shelters are dealing with a tsunami of pets that have been given up for adoption.
  — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2023
• The impact sent the water rushing out of the harbor, exposing the sea floor and creating a fifty-foot tsunami.
  — Amanda Forbis, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
• The earthquake was felt as far away as Australia, although officials say there is no threat of tsunami there at this time.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2023
• The second floor of the building will be a tsunami escape tower, given its proximity to the coast.
  — Camille Padilla Dalmau and Frances Medina, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2023
• References to a red tsunami nearly doubled again in the first eight days of November.
  — Steve Eder, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• Prior to Suzume’s release in Japan last year, Shinkai held a screening of the film in Tōhoku, the region devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
  — Kayti Burt, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023
• The Rocket dismissed Kid Sensation’s new album as old news and all but stopped covering the genre as the grunge tsunami hit.
  — Gary Campbell, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2023
• Republicans had been promising a tsunami-like sweep in the midterms but ended up stunned to see major losses across the board.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2022
• There was a meme tsunami making fun of the fact that Kate had supposedly Photoshopped the photo—with even the Dublin Airport jumping in on the fun.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2024
• There were no reports of injuries or damage and no tsunami warning was issued.
  — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2023
• A couple of weeks later, a page one piece in The New York Times detailed a tsunami of shocking amputations caused by risky artery surgery.
  — Michael L. Millenson, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The High Court case focused on whether the tsunami could have been predicted and whether the accident at the nuclear plant could have been prevented.
  — Junko Ogura, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• Advertisement The Padres cannot attempt to match the Dodgers, move for move or dollar for dollar, no matter the Ohtani tsunami that shook baseball.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2023
• Apophis, as the asteroid would later be named, is more than a thousand feet across—large enough to wipe out a large city or possibly trigger a tsunami.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• The water has accumulated at the plant since it was crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
• The torrent of capital rushing to America to nourish the beast grew into a tsunami.
  — Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024