How To Use Landfall In A Sentence
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In this paper the casualty loess landfall are classified into two types according to their modes of development: tension-sliding loess landfall and collapsed earth cave dwelling .
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Hurricane Irene's strong winds unmoor a boat and cause flooding as the storm makes landfall in North Carolina.
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Forecasters are warning that a hurricane making landfall at or near New York City could cause catastrophic damage in the U.S.'s largest urban center.
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Moreover, the ships transporting his cavalry were beset with contrary winds, and were never to make a landfall in Britain.
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Morison researched Columbus's second voyage, which had made landfall at Dominica and then gone north.
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After three weeks crossing the Atlantic, they made landfall on the coast of Ireland.
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The Mobile station also cautions that isolated tornadoes and "a detached rainband" or two from Rita remain possibilities, depending on how quickly it turns north before making landfall.
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The eye of the hurricane made landfall in the province of Holguin near Punto de Sama, with maximum winds near 125 mph.
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Sherkin was a pirate kingdom for a brief period of prosperity, providing beaches for careening ships, a safe landfall and opportunity for carousing.
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Here they could oversee the water below, look back on the green land which was Shalisa, and far out across Sea to their right where a hazy grey line indicated the first landfall David would make on his return journey home.
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Now we are stuck, New Orleans hangs like an albatross around our necks to the point where we have to postpose the convention simply because a hurricane is going to make landfall somewhere in the vicinty of New Orleans.
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On landfall she was hoisted from the boat, and the journey continued as before, on foot.
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Winds of up to 85mph were expected last night as the hurricane made landfall.
Times, Sunday Times
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1992 marked the quincentenary of Columbus' first landfall in America, and led to a spate of conferences, exhibitions, and books reflecting on the complex legacy of the Genoese navigator's voyage.
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These kinds of mesocyclones are also rare, only occurring with landfalling tropical systems.
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The typhoon has also made landfall in Britain.
Times, Sunday Times
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It made landfall at Plover Cove reservoir at 3 pm.
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The hurricane skidded over Cape Fear and veered up the coast before making landfall near Topsail Beach.
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After our first landfall we bore away south, and came eastabout to Cape Palmas, where you could see the palm trees that gave it its name down by the water's edge, and so along the Ivory Coast and Gold Coast past Three Points to Whydah, where we put into the open roads.
Flash For Freedom
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Whakatane is the chief service town for the eastern Bay of Plenty and was the landfall for the first Maori arrivals.
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I go, I go, into the vestries of the landfall and the oddity yellow dingy restricted cables of the landfall.
Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)
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By the middle of the 19th century this hat reached universal acceptance, and the crown of the hat became considerably higher, with sailors decorating the crown with badges obtained from various landfalls.
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After donning kilos of thermal underwear, Goretex and gumboots, all topped off by mandatory red life-jackets, we pile into the Zodiacs for our first landfall.
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The fleet did make a landfall; did put men and horses ashore; did engage the Japanese; but, astonishingly and in defiance of all precedent, were forced by the furious samurai into retreat.
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Hurricane Irene caused billions of dollars in damage and forced millions of people to evacuate, which could force the name "Irene" into retirement even though the storm was only a Category 1 when it made landfall and was downgraded to a tropical storm as it ravaged the Northeast.
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At one point on Wednesday, my margin of safety was down to four miles and I was forced to spend the whole day at the oars to avoid making an impromptu landfall.
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There was the satisfaction of making a neat landfall off Cape Ortegal, and flying along the Biscay coast just within sight of the harbour of Ferrol, where Hornblower had spent weary months in captivity — he tried vainly to make out the Dientes del Diablo where he had earned his freedom — and then rounding the far corner of Europe and setting a fresh course, with the wind miraculously still serving, as they plunged along, close-eauled now, to weather Cape Roca.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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As they approached the coast of Western Australia the wind blew too heavily for the ship to make landfall and they had to heave to with close reefed topsails.
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Shannon Airport in Ireland was the first European landfall for airplanes flying from North America.
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Air current wants to kind of squish it and sneak it west and now we're looking at a cone of uncertainty or probability of landfall anywhere from Houston or just south of Houston towards the Texas border.
CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2008
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Friday, with landfall following around midnight between Matagorda Bay to the north and Baffin Bay to the south.
Tropical Storm Don moves closer to Texas
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The storm has officially made landfall, squarely hitting the island of Cozumel and bringing with it 20-foot waves.
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During their rare landfalls sailors would gather any edible green plants, of which several species became known as ‘scurvy grass’.
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Then, a week from the finish, contrary winds forced her to again change landfalls, this time to Guadeloupe.
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But a long stretch of the Gulf Coast, from Louisiana to Florida's eastern panhandle, could take the brunt of this hurricane's next landfall.
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But the title touches too on his westward landfall, centuries after the first of his countrymen, in the city that was once New Amsterdam, in the Dutch province of New Netherland.
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Because the island was the final landfall before passage to America, ships would load up on Madeira's wines, both as a product to sell and to use as ballast.
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After a short and "uncongenial" employment with Hallensteins, Charles became one of New Zealand's foremost literary figures, founding the literary journal Landfall in 1946.
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On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and other federal officials toured Galveston, Houston and other areas of Texas ravaged by Hurricane Ike when it made landfall Saturday.
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Gaston is looking to make landfill almost directly toward us, [Update: freudian slip, of course I meant "landfall" but the original is funny so I am leaving it] although it is not nearly as strong a storm as Charley was.
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As they approached the coast of Western Australia the wind blew too heavily for the ship to make landfall and they had to heave to with close reefed topsails.
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The density of the landfall was critical to calculating at what moment the dam would capitulate.
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The waves hammering the shore cause the bulk of the damage in a hurricane landfall.
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In this paper the casualty loess landfall are classified into two types according to their modes of development: tension-sliding loess landfall and collapsed earth cave dwelling .
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Brazil is said to be interested in using the port of Walvis Bay as a landfall for exporting products to fellow Portuguese speaking country Angola.
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The sudden appearance of Europeans after the first landfall of Christopher Columbus in 1492 had a cataclysmic effect upon them.
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We made landfall at Barra in September last year, and once the rain stopped and the sky cleared, agreed that the scenery was as beautiful as anything we'd seen on our trip.
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The walkers journeyed along the Meridian Line from its first landfall on the North Sea coast at Tunstall to the banks of the Humber at Sunk Island.
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I see beastly flashbulbs of many thingummies moving in the landfall without the slightest knuckle-duster of the landfall I see all the many thingummies going about the landfall.
Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)
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In 1492, Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the Western Hemisphere in The Bahamas.
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This was the first landfall for vessels sailing the ‘great circle course’ from South Africa's Cape of Good Hope to the eastern Australian colonies.
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In the two weeks since Fay made landfall and snaked soggily up the peninsula, the lake has rocketed from record lows to a record rise.
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Coming from the Caribbean, we made our landfall at Cayo Largo.
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Shannon Airport in Ireland was the first European landfall for airplanes flying from North America.
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Fueled by 85-degree ocean water, amidst weakening vertical wind shear (changing of the wind with height) and a progressively humidifying environment, Richard's maximum sustained winds peaked at 90 mph just prior to its landfall roughly 20 miles south of Belize City late Sunday.
Richard's troublesome tropical journey
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When the hurricane made landfall, it hit a steep coastline that helped to avoid a storm surge.
Times, Sunday Times
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So if the forecast verifies, meaning if the forecast continues and actually comes to fruition come Monday night and this thing makes landfall somewhere between Louisiana and Pensacola, Florida, as a Category 4, then, yes.
CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2005
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That 906 millibar pressure reading was at landfall, making Dean the third most intense landfalling hurricane known in the Atlantic region and the first Category 5 storm at landfall since 1992's Hurricane Andrew.
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Landfall came just before daybreak Monday near the city of Naples on Florida's southwest gulf coast.
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Then, a week from the finish, contrary winds forced her to again change landfalls, this time to Guadeloupe.
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The storm just kind of aimlessly moving by early next week, not expecting to make landfall along the U.S., and the reason why is very simple, the same frontal boundary we had yesterday that is going to keep the storm at bay.
CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2008
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In calm seas and glorious weather, the ship made landfall off the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken, and secured to the Admiralty buoy in Cumberland Bay.
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Typhoon Roke first made landfall in the tourist town of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture at about 2 p.m. local time Wednesday, knocking over trucks and ripping roofs from homes, then crawled up Japan's Honshu island.
Storm Strikes Central Japan
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Said to be the original landfall of Christopher Columbus, it is graced with elegant Bermudian and colonial-style buildings.
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It has lost strength, but it's still on track to make landfall near the southern Texas coast.
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This storm was forecast in minute detail days before it made landfall.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a scene that has changed little from when Christopher Columbus made landfall here for supplies and water on his legendary voyage to discover the Americas.
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Breaking waves ride over each other reddened by the lividity of a fulminous sky, mount and collapse, as they wrest down a tall toppling ship not far out of landfall.
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The disembarkation began immediately, and I took the opportunity of a run ashore with the others to survey our unique landfall.
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The density of the landfall was critical to calculating at what moment the dam would capitulate.
