Sentence examples for a towering wave from inspiring English sources

A towering wave of destruction crashed down through the Hudson gorge and proceeded to smash the southern end of the local moraine to smithereens.

Their security throughout the tumbling fugue of the demon's chorus was abetted by Petrenko's pinpoint communication of the beat; the exultant culmination of Praise to the Holiest had the vertiginous feeling of a towering wave about to break.

Age, injury and the demands of job and family have thinned the ranks, and Generation Next seems less willing to conquer a towering wave with only its hide.

What a surfing photographer like LeRoy Grannis wants is to freeze the moment at an instant of maximum tension: the towering wave just before it crashes from a sheer glassy green wall into frothy chaos; the surfer, an escape artist, scooting along just ahead of the angry white water that threatens to engulf him and take him down.

Amid a hurricane and towering waves glittering with ice, they navigated across the open ocean.

Hurricane Sandy arrived in this coastal resort town with the roar that was expected on Monday, as towering waves snapped a fishing pier, rain and seawater inundated city streets and officials shut down both major bridges that normally carry thousands of visitors to beaches and hotels in the summer months.

Italy and Greece sent navy and coastguard vessels and helicopters, while nearby merchant ships lined up to form a barrier to protect the ferry from towering waves and to help the rescue.

Passengers on a Royal Caribbean ship bound for Florida and the Bahamas headed home early after a powerful storm battered their liner with towering waves and high winds.

The ruggedly beautiful Portuguese coast boasts awe-inspiring views of towering waves thundering against dramatic cliffs, and today we have a chance to experience this.

California's northern three counties are threatened by the offshore Cascadia Fault, which delivers only once every few centuries but is now long overdue and could send towering waves to shore in as little as ten minutes after a quake.

Surf experts and weather officials have forecast a swell — churned by North Pacific storms — that may rival those of 1969, considered a seminal year in surfing the North Shore, where images of surfers flying down towering waves helped bring the sport into the mainstream and into the perennial realm of cool.