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  • adjective Moving towards or into.

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Examples

  • If there is not enough food to fill the freezer, many suggest putting in more ice trays or some containers of water … Some extra water containers in the cooling section will also minimise the amount of inrushing warm air that has to be cooled when the door opens and shuts.

    Make Your Refrigerator Far More Efficient | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • The tides are unnaturally high, and every day and night the floods from the river pour down to the inrushing tide and there is a boiling surge of water that wipes out riverside houses, quays, piers, and docks.

    The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

  • The roar of inrushing water drowned out all sound for almost thirty seconds until—ominously—the whole shaft suddenly fell silent.

    Hell Island Matthew Reilly 2010

  • The scandals and crimes form a tsunami of noise, inrushing upon a benumbed ear, until all that can be perceived is a background static of wrongness, like the vestigial radiation of the Big Bang that permeates the universe.

    Chip Collis: We Want Change... But From What? 2009

  • But what about the inrushing permanent underclass from the south, and the outrushing middle class, headed inland away from the high taxes, racial tension, and cultural chaos?

    Matthew Yglesias » Enforcement 2007

  • If there is not enough food to fill the freezer, many suggest putting in more ice trays or some containers of water … Some extra water containers in the cooling section will also minimise the amount of inrushing warm air that has to be cooled when the door opens and shuts.

    Make Your Refrigerator Far More Efficient | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • And in the morning the yellow sea faintly crinkled by the inrushing wind from the land, and long, straight lines on the lacquered meadow, long, straight lines that reared at last in green glass, then broke in snow, and slushed softly up the sand.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • From the distant cliffs there ran out, on either side, brown reefs, which made the inrushing water dance and foam, and the entrance to the Bay narrow and dangerous: on one side, there projected the portion of a wreck which had lain there as long as Laura had been in the world.

    The Getting of Wisdom 2003

  • When the doors of the palace were opened, we braced ourselves to fight or die, but the inrushing guards of the outer garrison hailed the Magi as heroes.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

  • And even as I thought it, the emptiness was filled, a vast inrushing presence of joy and love and light, more light than I could bear.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

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