How to Use onrush in a Sentence

onrush

noun
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  • There is no proof that this drastic course of treatment is right for any, let alone all, of the onrush of children claiming to be transgender.
    — Nathanael Blake, National Review, 10 June 2021
  • Meanwhile, GameStop was already preparing for the onrush of fans.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2017
  • There the Allies were no match for the stunning onrush of German soldiers, artillery, and tanks that would in a matter of days push a dangerous bulge in the Allied line.
    — Bill Newcott, National Geographic, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Obviously, much of that mighty onrush would flow unstoppably downstream, there to pass under the arches of the area’s many bridges.
    — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2020
  • With the change in climate and the onrush of new cultures, many other hunter-gatherers may have retreated to the north, where the mammoth steppe still existed.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2023
  • When online bookings for the first few tables went live, an onrush of aspiring diners caused the reservation page to crash.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Back then, the bricklayers could barely keep pace with an onrush of Irish, German and Italian immigrants.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 12 July 2018
  • But vaccination progress has been slow after an initial onrush of demand when outbreaks started in the spring.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The theory behind this practice is the onrush of blood will help bring nutrients to help your legs recover efficiently, but this has not been proven for fact.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The grand proportions of each story are there, but the most scintillating details are sometimes abandoned to the constant onrush of more details, more stories.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022
  • White likewise said medical patients should not be displaced by the onrush of recreational customers.
    — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2020
  • What is wagashi but a way of making beauty out of the onrush of days, marking each infinitesimal shift in season, each irretrievable inch around the sun?
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Too often, skeptics of the mayor’s plan say, that means someone who looks dangerous but actually needs help is met with an onrush of officers who know nothing about him.
    — Benjamin Mueller, Jan Ransom and Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Dylan Patel, chief analyst at chip research firm SemiAnalysis, said the big companies are in a prime position to benefit from the onrush of demand.
    — Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Along with the media onrush and charitable response came another, far more malevolent form of attention.
    — Elizabeth Williamson, The Atlantic, 2 June 2022
  • This onrush of introspection obliquely tells a sad family story.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Not nearly enough venue doors were open, and attendees mistakenly believed the band was starting early when, according to the Who’s manager, the arena speakers blasted the film trailer for Quadrophenia, leading to a brutal onrush of fans.
    — Asawin Suebsaeng, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2022
  • Clearly, humanity must learn to befriend AI, and be prepare for the onrush of technological advancements.
    — Calvin MacKie, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The contemporary business is lightly, even haphazardly, plotted, because the real pressure, the storied onrush, comes from the past—from inescapable memory.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • No matter the good intentions of the parents or how self-sacrificing their desire to keep their child at home, adolescence, with its onrush of agitating hormones, tends to make home care an impossibility.
    — Eli Gottlieb, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • For the past half-century, the NRA has eagerly cultivated a pseudopopulist image of an armed and angry battery of righteous culture warriors of the right, beating back the faithless onrush of big government liberalism one armed citizen at a time.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The military career that Ortega, an only child, once considered his birthright — several members of his family have had jobs protecting the socialist government — has been discarded in the onrush of Venezuela’s protest movement.
    — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 3 June 2017
  • The Small Business Administration, lightly staffed and working with aging technology, has been caught unprepared for the onrush of demand from desperate small-business owners who urgently need these loans as the coronavirus stalls the economy.
    — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Was, in this vision, Maoism experiencing an onrush of popularity, and so experts, ones like Adam, were being tapped to give high-profile public lectures on the nuts and bolts of this important yet undercovered political theory?
    — Matt B. Weir, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022

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