Meaning of undertow in English
(Definition of undertow from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of undertow from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of undertow
undertow
By predicting how undertows interact with shorelines, researchers can build sand dunes and engineer other soft solutions to create more robust and sustainable beaches.
From Phys.Org
It's the idea that, there is -- no matter where you're going -- there's always an undertow pulling you in a different direction.
From NPR
In the larger scheme of things, advection of the undertow is weak.
From Phys.Org
Undertow, for all its narrative tricks, has been given the rhythm and texture of real life, as well as emotional undercurrents that are haunting.
From NPR
Large storms produce strong undertows that can strip beaches of sand.
From Phys.Org
This is the undertow, the current that pulls water back into the ocean after a wave breaks on the beach.
From Phys.Org
When this tech wave hits, retailers and e-tailers need to be riding it -- not caught in the undertow.
From Wired
Researchers have studied undertow for more than 40 years, and have developed very accurate models of its behavior.
From Phys.Org
It's to tell the story with some nuance and sophistication, to find the undertow and complexity that's behind the headlines, good and bad.
From Plain Dealer
These artists are hanging onto their last thread of identity, uselessly dragging their fingernails through the sand as the undertow of conformity threatens to pull them in at any moment.
From Huffington Post
Over the last 35 years, the man-made dam has claimed the lives of children, the elderly and even would-be rescuers trying to save others from the dangerous undertow.
From Chicago Tribune
The great equalizer amongst all people, whether royalty or not, is life's experiences and its emotional undertow that pulls us ever more deeply into feeling the experience.
From Huffington Post
Still, some simply can't avoid the undertow.
From NPR
But precisely because organicism meant such different things to so many nineteenth-century thinkers, it tugged at cultural discourse with powerful (if murky) undertows and cross-currents.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The water is very deep along the edge of this rock, but the undertow doesn't seem to have any great force.
From Project Gutenberg
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