"current" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The landscape also played its part- limiting major, long-term water movement by rivers that were unnavigable for long stretches, contrary currents, and lack of good coastal harbors.
- It will be affected by the contrary currents that define American culture - its deep religiousness and its creeping secularity.
- The man's as contrary as air currents or water currents.
- His poetry only began to be reassessed at a period when critics turned their attention to examining contrary currents within the 'Augustan age'.
- More than once contrary currents almost swept them out to sea.
- The ship, sail still un- furled, bucked as a contrary current of wind caught it and Elric was forced to cling to the ship's side lest he be tossed overboard.
- Like contrary currents in the sea, waves of warriors flowed over and against one another in contending swells-some striving towards the attackers, others struggling away.
- His oarsmen's greed for gold was soon replaced by plain hunger, and they were exhausted by the contrary currents.
- While just beyond Daphaeu's coast I picked up one of those contrary currents that lace the island's edges and which, tide or no, would funnel me away from shore.
- Ms. Wolf's advice startled because it embodied the contrary currents in the public's expectations of its leaders.
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