bow-wave

• “He was swimming at the surface, his great square head resting on the shallow bow-wave that his progress pushed just ahead of him.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk

• “The run-up to this speech has been characterised by some epic spinning from shadowy American and Israeli ‘sources’ which has been creating a powerful bow-wave of feverish speculation and alarm.”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “The slug created a downward bow-wave that caused edema and pressure on the optic chiasm.”

  Duma Key

• “I saw that their legs did not move, as they did in crossing land, but remained fixed and triangulated, and that each foot raised a bow-wave which, supposing they were of the usual size, must be twenty feet high.”

  Simon & Schuster: The White Mountains

• “And second, we've been living off of seed corn, going back to about the beginning of the 1980s, in terms of what, then, was a bow-wave of procurement and modernization of equipment.”

  Press Briefing By Bob Bell

• “Only the utter placidity of the water allowed him to discern the effect, and that just for an instant, before the ripples were cleanly split by the gentle bow-wave of the boat.”

  Emperor of Ansalon

• “Their car banked around a corner and screamed past them, kicking up a brief bow-wave of hot, dry, exhaust-tinged wind, motor howling like a Bane-Sidhe.”

  Omnibus

• “Liz swung the car at ninety degrees onto the shore road, sending a white bow-wave up from a snow drift.”

  Northlight

• “The hypnotic effect of the rushing waters and the gigantic bow-wave, coupled with the sheer physical shock of the bone-jarring vibrations of the deck and the banshee clamour of the great aero-engines, was almost literally stunning.”

  The Lonely Sea

• “Jon-Tom peered over the railing to see the playful, smooth, gray-backed shapes sliding easily through the water, hitching a free ride on the boat's bow-wave.”

  The Day of the Dissonance

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