Sentence examples for breaking of waves from inspiring English sources

The piece includes conventionally pretty sounds of the coast: the breaking of waves, the drone of a foghorn, the clanging of a ship's bell.

Maggi Hambling lives near the beach at Aldeburgh, and her painting and sculpture mirror the breaking of waves on shingle and the human unpredictability of the sea – calm one moment, turbulent and tossing the next.

It has been demonstrated, however, that a large percentage of the salts in rain is derived from the bursting of small bubbles at the sea surface due to the impact of rain droplets or the breaking of waves, which results in the injection of sea aerosol into the atmosphere.

In fact, the entire day's action made sense – each 40-minute knockout heat between two surfers overlapped so that for most of the time there were four riders in the water, each getting marks out of 10 for their rides – and even if you were unfamiliar with terms like "cutback" and "foam ball", there was the hypnotic, metronomic breaking of waves to put a laconic grin on your face.

The result is a full surf-zone model capable of capturing the propagation of waves offshore, the breaking of waves near shore and full wave runup.

A more rigorous look into the physical situation shows that while waves are basically vertical oscillations of the water surface, the visible part of the wave is its front, which moves in a linear motion over the sea surface (though foam and the breaking of waves at high sea states can cause local distortions of this linearity).

Hydrodynamic conditions in the meso-oligophotic zone are better explained by breaking of internal waves, and their induced up- and down-slope currents, instead of the surface storm waves.

Controlled repeatable generation of realistic breaking waves in wave flume experiments is a difficult but important task.

Even from the fourth floor they can hear the sad rhythms breaking into waves of laughter and then, later still, the "Maple Leaf Rag" hammered out on a piano.

So I put the breaking waves of "Promises of Fertility" on repeat, and its cottonball synth lines reshaped the world around me. Everything was a little softer.

The island of Hawaii received breaking waves of 20 feet (6 m) in height, and eastern Maui reported up to 12 feet waves.