11 sentences with “wave”

Her hair has a nice natural wave.

The crest of the wave broke against the ship.

The wave crashed against the rock and scattered into drops of foam.

The crest of the wave broke against the ship, throwing the men into the water.

Shortly after they left I experienced another wave of pain.

However, from the early 1400 BCE onwards, a wave of invasions by the Mycenaeans to the north eventually extinguished Minoan independence.

A recent archaeological discovery (in 2019) showed that Homo sapiens sapiens arrived in Europe and the Near East 210,000 years ago, but that wave of migrants subsequently disappeared.

Likewise, there was a wave of Protestant conversions that spread very rapidly in the 1530s, but then, as Protestant denominations splintered and turned against each other, the "purity" of Protestantism's appeal faded.

As conditions warmed around 70,000 years ago, another wave of Homo sapiens sapiens spread to the Middle East and Europe and began to interbreed with and - probably - slowly kill off Neanderthals, who disappeared soon after.

While the initial wave of European colonisation (mainly in the Americas) had been driven by the search for gold and the desire to convert foreigners to Christianity, European powers came to pursue colonies and trade routes in the name of commodities and the wealth they generated in the 17th century.

Indeed, Heraclius himself was forced to lead Byzantium during the first wave of Arab invasions, and despite his own leadership abilities vital territories such as Syria, Palestine and Egypt were lost during his own lifetime (he died in 641, the same year that most of Egypt was conquered by the Arabs).