Sentence examples for allowed surfers from inspiring English sources

First, it allowed surfers to handle waves that were more than 30 feet (9 metres) tall.

Called "malibus," for the California beach on which they were introduced, and weighing a mere 20 pounds (9 kg), these boards allowed surfers to "trim" (adjust their position and weight on the board to allow it to travel at the same speed as the breaking wave), "stall" (slow the board to allow the breaking wave to "catch up"), and change direction on the walls of breaking waves.

In 1999 Eng-Sion Tan launched a company called Third Voice, a browser plug-in that created a sidebar on web pages and allowed surfers to annotate the page by adding their comments.

The straps allowed surfers to capture the action up-close, planting the seed for the game-changing company years later.

Its interactivity allows surfers to select only the stuff they want.

The technique allows surfers to ride enormous waves, sometimes miles offshore.

Nowadays, in big-wave surfing, it's the opposite — they allow surfers to keep chasing that rush.

Advertisers argue that allowing surfers to opt out of tracking en masse would hobble the ad revenues that support most Web sites.

It has just introduced a version of its Explorer browser that allows surfers to block some tools advertisers use to track consumers' activities online.

Microsoft said it would offer a feature (dropped last year) that would allow surfers using Internet Explorer to block some monitoring efforts.

Tow-in surfing, as it is called, allows surfers to mount waves like the 50-footers that pound the Cortes Bank 100 miles off San Diego.