Sentence examples for crest of water from inspiring English sources

But for many it was a temporary reprieve as they braced for another crest of water.

— Erik Weihenmayer stood on a concrete berm above a gushing crest of white water and cocked his head slightly.

The pointed crest reflects immediate diffusion of water, whereas flat top and rounded crest indicates delayed and slow diffusivity respectively.

The Queen Mary seemed to be locked in a frenzied dance with the elements, the ship reaching and rising and then, on the crest of the churned water, going into a wicked shimmy, its sides shaking and jangling like a belly dancer on spliff, before sinking back voluptuously into the trough.

The deformation of the water ridge is obvious, which reflects on the degree of water crest asymmetry.

Much of the route follows the remote and rugged crest of the Rocky Mountains: waters on the west of the divide drain to the Pacific and those on the east flow to the Atlantic.

The ideal of water crested by a bow was supported by a collection of photos of water and waves Mr. Faghihzadeh gathered and pinned in the studio to keep designers and modelers focused on the goal.

After that, a bottom water cresting model was developed based on the piston-like displacement principle, which could be used to calculate the bottom water breakthrough location, breakthrough time and the shape of water cresting at different times.

They created and named more than a dozen different kinds of water, from crest foam (the white churn at the top of a wave) to chopper wash (the pebble-in-a-pond circles created by a helicopter hovering above the water).

This paper sets out to investigate experimentally the use of electromagnetic valves in controlling production of water during cresting from homogeneous non-fractured thick-oil and thin-oil reservoirs, based on the principle of capillarity and breakthrough time.

The Río Grande de San Miguel crested rapidly, causing an excess of water discharge just southwest of Usulután.