Sentence examples for coastline setting from inspiring English sources

These companies penetrated inland from the coastline, setting up plantations and taxing the local populace who had until then resisted encroachment by the colonists.

About 74km east, Amasra's lesser-known and rarely visited cousin Cide sits on a breathtaking stretch of coastline, set against a dramatic backdrop of jagged sandstone mountains.

The city's main beach, Poetto is only a five to 10 minute bus-ride from the city center and has a long coastline set against a mountain backdrop.

In 1931, Browning read Daphne du Maurier's novel The Loving Spirit and, impressed by its graphic depictions of the Cornish coastline, set out to see it for himself in Ygdrasil.

Before the dive you put the lubber line of the compass parallel to the reef or coastline and set the mark on the bezel on the north.

Turn away from idyllic Nyhavn harbour and the Scandi-noir film setting coastline and you'll see burger joint after burger joint, with the odd sushi bar.

The plans had excited strong opposition locally from people who felt the development would destroy their coastline's wonderful natural setting.

For countries with no marine captures or coastline, proportions were set to zero.

But is the coastline ready?

A drive along the winding shore takes you through a picturesque landscape of simple cottages hugging the coastline and rambling farmhouses set back on rolling green fields (except in the freezing depths of winter, when all is snowy white).

This site is located near the coastline, and it is set above an unconfined coastal aquifer, where seawater intrusion is present.