"Oh my goodness, it sounded like huge rocks were crashing over our heads," she said.
The ceremony had an environmental theme; as we began, the ocean seemed to be crashing over the stadium.
Today it's open but as I approach in my van, the sea is crashing over the barrier.
Even the eider had to choose their area of water as the sea was crashing over the sea wall at one end.
"If people want to know what it's like to round Cape Horn in a storm as waves are crashing over the boat, they can," he said.
Now when she walks her dogs near the beach, a strange sensation comes over her: she is standing below sea level, and the waves 100 yards away are crashing over her head.
He said he knew it was going to be worse than imagined when at 5 30 p.m. Monday, at what was supposed to reaching low tide, waves were crashing over the sea wall and lapping up against his house.
In an interview in August, as the first wave of subprime woe was crashing over markets, Chuck Prince explained that customers flocked to Citigroup in such trying times because "we are a pillar of strength".
The euro is now the currency of 17 nations, crisscrossing frontiers in countless transactions, swamped by a tide of debt and economic retreat whose latest rolling wave is crashing over Spain.
A couple of hours later, after one of the best meals of my life – freshly cooked king crab at Rausu Maruuo Hamada Shoten, a restaurant, not much more than a fisherman's hut really, by the beach (365-1 Rebuncho, Rauso-cho, Menashi-gun) – we were crashing over white waves to the uninhabited tip of the peninsula in a sea urchin boat, basically a fibreglass tub with an outboard motor.
