Sentence examples for breakwater from inspiring English sources

To its left, a vast new breakwater curves into the ocean.

They are distinctly quieter about the huge new naval base whose concrete breakwater looms beyond the parasailors and jet-skiers out in Yalong bay .Don't go near it.

In January of this year, the last rock was put into The World's breakwater, which stretches for 27km and uses 34m tonnes of rock.

That, as generations of swarthy, golden-haired hulks will tell you, is because such islands create a natural breakwater.

But in the city of Kamaishi a $1.6 billion breakwater, listed in the "Guinness Book of Records" as the world's largest, crumbled on impact.

The reef, built from 34m tonnes of rock, forms a protective ring around the islands a breakwater that stops the Gulf's currents from slowly washing The World away.To its many critics, Dubai's economy is as artificial as Nakheel's islands.

Tides soon swept the sand away, forcing the hotel to build an expensive breakwater to make sure its beach would last.The Bahamas has plenty going for it, but the greatest risks to its tourist trade whether natural or man-made are beyond its control.

Here a national hero stares down the English fleet on the fortified breakwater at La Rochelle, there in his study he plays with his cats.

These would float on giant concrete barges surrounded by a breakwater.

Then a massive breakwater is built around the islands to protect them from the stiff local sea currents.

Now policymakers are scrambling to build an economic breakwater that might protect the emirate's prosperity from adverse tides: plunging property prices, ebbing trade and tourism, and the unaccustomed difficulty of refinancing its ambitions.The debt of Dubai's government and government-controlled companies is about $80 billion.