Sentence examples for a causeway in from inspiring English sources
They would rather, they say, stay put and carry on farming provided local services are improved— than return to a rehabilitated marsh.A few kilometres south of al-Naser, a second group of Shaghanba have clung stubbornly to a causeway in the face of Saddam's depredations, and suffered accordingly.
Banks's novel gets off to a slow start, introducing the Kid, a young sex offender — his tiny universe prescribed by an ankle bracelet — living with an enormous pet iguana in a shantytown of social outcasts under a causeway in South Florida.
Automobile traffic could reach the island with the completion of a causeway in 1922.
Before the construction of a causeway in 1968, the river had one of the world's largest tidal bores, which ranged from 1-2 m in height and moved at 5-13.
Vatersay has sheltered anchorages and was only 300 metres (330 yd) from Barra (until the construction of a causeway in 1990) and Neil MacPhee wrote "it is better a thousand times to die here than to go through the same hardships which were our lot" on Mingulay.
The lake is crossed by a causeway, built in 1853 and raised in the 20th century to prevent the causeway from flooding frequently.
A causeway, opened in 1986, connects the kingdom with the island nation of Bahrain.
Now Jekyll, which is connected to the mainland by a causeway, is in the midst of a development spurt that includes projects like this 10-acre oceanfront condo-hotel.
The village of Rodney Bay's marina is filled with yachts during the December Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (transatlantic yacht crossing), and its ferries make daily excursions to Pigeon Island, a 40-acre national park attached to the mainland by a causeway built in 1972.
Anthropogenic developments (a ferry causeway in 1961 and a port causeway in 1969) have been responsible for changes in tidal flow patterns, tidal elevation, sediment transport and the net expansion of eelgrass beds.
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A woman drowned after trying to cross a flooded causeway in Australia, becoming the first victim of relentless flooding that one official has described as reaching "biblical proportions," the police said Sunday.
