Sentence examples for a jetty of from inspiring English sources

And a blue towel thrown suggestively over a jetty of painted plaster rocks might have been left by an impromptu skinny-dipper.

Here she recalls her frustrations trying to raise Rayne, who became her charge when just a small child: "It was as if Selma were alone with the lazy boy on a jetty of won't-do".

Kids were everywhere — splashing in the one-foot-deep keiki pool, carving sandcastles on the beach, snorkeling in calm ocean water that was sheltered by a jetty of lava rocks.

Boca Chita Key was developed with several structures including an imitation lighthouse, built using coral rock and topped with a wire cage resembling a lighthouse lantern, and the end of a jetty on the north side of the key.

The flow of sand is already reduced by a jetty on the east side of Jones Inlet and three shorter groins on the Point Lookout side, not to mention the 23 battered old groins along the Long Beach beachfront itself.

The engineers overseeing the project explained that, after two years, their team had nearly completed a covered market, a pier and a jetty for a handful of fishing boats, and a pair of vocational schools.

Later that night, when Miranda hears her parents arguing, she flees to the beach and crawls out on a jetty made of rocks as the tide is rising.

When surfing near a jetty, beware of the "bowl.

"I look at the risk and say he who gets here first with the best idea gets the best opportunity," Captain Karnowski said recently as he led visitors on a tour of a jetty with a view of one of Saddam Hussein's eight presidential homes across the Tigris.

On a bright, hot day last summer, while he was walking a tract in Breezy Point, Queens, with a reporter, Mr. Gates tried to reach a small tower at the end of a jetty at the southern tip of the peninsula.

That's right: With its consistent break off of a jetty, Rockaway Beach is (debatably) one of the best places in the country to surf.