How To Use Breakwater In A Sentence
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The 1.1-acre site has access to a small bathing area and harbour enclosed by a concrete pier and a breakwater.
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At the same time, Breakwater is preparing to bulldoze most of those buildings this summer as part of its clean-up plan.
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The breakwater tamed the waves and provided a safe bathing area.
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The boat slips sleepily down the harbour, until it rounds the breakwater and the wind catches its sail.
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Initially it seems that the ship is grounded as solidly as a breakwater, but after a while the creaks and groans are evidence of movement, however slight this may be.
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The light is of the 4th order dioptric, showing a red arc of 270° to seaward, and a white arc of 90°, visible inside the breakwater and to the southward towards Alligator Creek.
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A crest much above this level effectively converts a reef to a detached breakwater, introducing the potential for the formation of harmful tombolos and disruption to longshore processes.
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The Seastag moved slowly northward, then hove to off the southern breakwater, waiting, the paddle wheels turning just enough to keep the ship with bare steerageway.
Wellspring of Chaos
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Ballan wrasse tend to be a by-catch for most anglers when fishing breakwaters and easy access rock marks.
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Somewhere out of my sight in the darkness, waves crashed against the breakwater.
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This paper studies the wave motion in rubble mound breakwater by discarding the homogeneous assumption.
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We first visited the village of Sand Beach, and returned at nightfall to the breakwater, which is five miles distant from the former; here the yacht was cabled to the dock.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition
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The tide was high, so they could not climb on the rocks and breakwaters, or explore the caves.
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Back of the breakwater the dredger was working.
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On the other side of the breakwater is a choppy small bay where the more experienced snorkelers go out.
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Within Plymouth Sound, the breakwater guarantees diving in all conditions apart from strong south and south-easterly winds.
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Behind the south-facing second-story window with the optimal view of both the harbor and the breakwater is the main council chamber of the Brotherhood.
The Death of Chaos
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Comb - like breakwater and rubble mound breakwater with pressure - relieving inverted - L breast wall are innovations of breakwater structures.
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We will examine the issue of wave - seabedrubble mound vertical breakwater interaction through flume test.
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During migration and winter, they inhabit rocky coasts, reefs, jetties, and breakwaters.
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Big conger inhabit a number of environments, including deep water rock marks, harbours, jetties, piers, breakwaters and the odd sandy beach!
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The docks stretched the width of the town, from wall to wall, a cobbled waterfront avenue with two wharves jutting out into the bay, embraced by the arms of the breakwater.
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A few yards away, the ocean waves slam against the breakwater.
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The haul road will be used to ferry materials from the quarry to the beach for the construction of the breakwaters and related marine infrastructure.
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Although several yachts have berthed next to the new breakwater wall, the catamaran was the first to use the pontoons, which have been moved during the past two weeks.
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If you look out towards what you call the breakwater, you see all the edges right now with the rocks.
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Zack was throughly impressed by the waves crashing on the breakwater, but was disappointed at the paucity of good skipping stones.
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In the 19th century the greatest engineering addition to the bay was the construction of the Harbour with its two-tiered breakwaters or piers and wonderful granite stonework.
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I picked it up and moved on toward the breakwater, stopping occasionally to turn over a stone or a clump of seaweed.
COASTLINERS
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South of the palace is the breakwater guarding the Royal Harbour.
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Strengthening work to the South Breakwaters commenced during the year with the award of a contract to Mssrs Concrete units for the casting of 30 ton dolosse in the amount of R5,7 million.
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Back of the breakwater the dredger was working.
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Various other communities want better docks, wharves, breakwaters, and repairs or replacements for airport runways and buildings.
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The council suggested two breaks be created in the breakwaters enclosing the harbour to assist in the flushing out of sediment or organic detritus.
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They had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks.
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The smaller one, at Manele Bay, is protected by a breakwater and its harbormaster will make a real effort to accommodate visiting craft.
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Carrick videoed hundreds of feet of oiled orange deflective boom that was piled on breakwaters, unattended, and birds were perching in the mess.
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Initially it seems that the ship is grounded as solidly as a breakwater, but after a while the creaks and groans are evidence of movement, however slight this may be.
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The breakwater, which is a good half mile in length, is a favorite promenade for the citizens of Colombo.
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He also calls for construction of new offshore breakwaters to dampen the waves' energy before they reach the shoreline, but some environmentalists say this tactic has only made matters worse in other situations.
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Against the night sky was a darker shape, ghosting past the breakwater.
CORMORANT
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These were solid stone, with an artificial breakwater surrounding the harbour.
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The installation of groynes, breakwaters, or protective sea walls has knock-on effects on the natural circulation of water and sediment in the near-shore environment.
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The city of Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, began removing concrete breakwater tetrapods from its shores Monday so sea turtles will be able to come ashore to lay their eggs, municipal officials said.
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Realism is never popular in boating, but the vast majority of boats in marinas seldom venture outside the breakwater.
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The zigzag of harbour walls and breakwaters below the cliff were deserted.
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The end of this breakwater only becomes clear when fairly close, but otherwise the approaches to the main port are simple.
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We have to extend both piers with new breakwaters to the east and then curve them towards each other.
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The Night Watch ghosted past a few fishing boats and a rotting cabin cruiser, then nosed through the gap in the marina's breakwater.
CORMORANT
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The breakwaters required to do this were built with cribbing of incorrodible metal, affixed to deeply driven metallic piles, and filled with stones along coasts where they were found in abundance or excess.
A Journey in Other Worlds
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Swimming was difficult and dangerous due to the heavy waves and jagged rocks, so Pinos adapted existing breakwater structures to enclose two new bays for protected bathing.
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The granite sea wall, which is being constructed on the northern side of the port's main breakwater, will be built to contain basin sediments dredged from the harbour.
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Providing you're casting on to sand, it doesn't matter if you're fishing from a pier, breakwater, surf beach or rock ledge, the dabs will be there.
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The marina development will consist of the construction of two breakwaters, fifty-three floating pontoon berths and hardstanding, together with a slipway adjoining the existing pier.
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A solid surf beats against the breakwater, swashing spray on the sidewalk vendors and strolling passers-by.
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If it had not been for them, in fact, there probably would never have been a "breakwater" at all.
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During migration and winter, they inhabit rocky coasts, reefs, jetties, and breakwaters.
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Many of the structures (jetties, harbours, sea walls, breakwaters) built by society disrupt the natural coastal processes and consequently result in erosion and deposition.
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Through binoculars I had noted the breakwaters of what appeared to be a small artificial harbour just a mile along the coast.
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A strong breakwater, about 800 feet long, was also run out from the south shore, leaving a space of about 250 feet as an entrance, thereby giving greater protection to the shipping in the harbour, while the contraction of the channel, by increasing the "scour," tended to give a much greater depth of water on the bar.
The Life of Thomas Telford
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On Sunday August 3rd a memorial to those victims was unveiled and blessed on the western breakwater in Dingle harbour.
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We just put the nose down and went weaving and skidding in a dive, passing over the breakwater of Cherbourg at about 400 feet.
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The creation of a marina breakwater for Kirkwall Harbour has taken another step forward with the job now out to tender.
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Most of ours live aboard vessels moored more or less permanently outside the marina breakwater, in a shallow bight known as Fools' Anchorage.
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Once outside the inner breakwater, we began to unfurl all the sails.
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All around our coastline we have estuaries, docks, harbours, marshes and breakwaters.
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In the 19th century the greatest engineering addition to the bay was the construction of Dun Laoghaire Harbour with its two-tiered breakwaters or piers and wonderful granite stonework.
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The installation of groynes, breakwaters, or protective sea walls has knock-on effects on the natural circulation of water and sediment in the near-shore environment.
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Big conger inhabit a number of environments, including deep water rock marks, harbours, jetties, piers, breakwaters and the odd sandy beach!
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The chairman then suggested that a new marina could be constructed on the harbour side of the breakwater which could double the existing berthage capacity.
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The design of the breakwater was based on the recommendations of an engineering study.
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The final design of the Mulberry Harbours called for a breakwater created by sunken ship hulks and the manufacture of an outer sea wall of huge concrete boxes which were given the codename, Phoenix.
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A decision on the contentious breakwater, a rail spur for trains to offload and collect cargo, has delayed the tender process since the team first met in September last year.
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Two large ships, plated with the same grey metal, lay at anchor inside the calm area behind the massive breakwater defences, while others listed and rolled in the water, on the verge of capsizing.
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In the cheap bar of the spendy restaurant, I was told that the Army Corps of Engineers had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks.
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Many of the structures (jetties, harbours, sea walls, breakwaters) built by society disrupt the natural coastal processes and consequently result in erosion and deposition.
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The 1.1-acre site has access to a small bathing area and harbour enclosed by a concrete pier and a breakwater.
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The traps are intricate, with raceways, loops, funnels, breakwaters, and arrowheads to direct and trap the fish.
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The harbor was a deep bite out of the city, probably a river mouth, protected by stone breakwaters at the mouth to the west.
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Manfred was silent, suitably chastened, and by the time they reached the breakwaters at Montauk Harbor he'd been forgiven.
AMAGANSETT
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What we're calling the breakwater is obviously working.
Storm Rising
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We will examine the issue of wave - seabedrubble mound vertical breakwater interaction through flume test.
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All around our coastline we have estuaries, docks, harbours, marshes and breakwaters.
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The proposed marina development at Blacksod will consist of a 50-berth facility protected by two rock armour breakwaters.
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It's as if there were some kind of weir or breakwater under the water there, he thought; it could be sand, or a coral reef, but it looks almost as if it were artificial.
The War with the Newts
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During the attack intense fire from the breakwaters and the Harbour was encountered.
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Previously, the Port Authority has come out in favour of an eastern breakwater rail option, which would see a rock groyne extended out into the ocean.
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The bay is admirably sheltered by the land on three sides, while on the North it is sheltered by a large breakwater, which is protected and leaves passage for vessels.
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But their final resting place is under the waves, where they are being used to create artificial reefs, marine habitats, breakwaters, erosion preventers and some very cool diving destinations.
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The key to it is to develop a new outer breakwater in our harbour.
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Ocean, and at Degerhamm on the Baltic, where the water is only one-seventh as salt as the North Sea, while the concrete blocks were built up in the form of a breakwater or groyne at Thyboron on the west coast of Jutland.
The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns
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A fisherman was pulled to safety by quick acting fellow anglers on the harbour breakwater last night after a freak wave swept him and two others into the sea.
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Like other breakwater opponents, Mr West says the extension of the beach will rob users of a protected area, particularly young yachtsmen learning how to sail, and cost the community a valuable resource.
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A series of huge breakwaters and floodgates has been built to protect major harbours and installations.
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A solid surf beats against the breakwater, swashing spray on the sidewalk vendors and strolling passers-by.
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The harbour entrance itself was guarded by two breakwater piers of heavy sandstone construction for most of their length.
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Out on the breakwater, fishermen wave to us as we roll by, and I wave back.
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Within Plymouth Sound, the breakwater guarantees diving in all conditions apart from strong south and south-easterly winds.
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Big conger inhabit a number of environments, including deep water rock marks, harbours, jetties, piers, breakwaters and the odd sandy beach!
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The design of the breakwater was based on the recommendations of an engineering study.
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The end result of that was a temporary "breakwater" running from the northernmost tip of Iftel to the southernmost end of Karse, a breakwater that disrupted the mage-storms as they moved across the face of the land, broke them up and dissipated their energies harmlessly.
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