Sentence examples for groyne from inspiring English sources

Jodyraynsford rescued me from certain bankruptcy at 2p at a time, ushering me towards the Volks Railway, the world's oldest operating electric line, where I sniggered maturely while gliding past the halfway point at Banjo Groyne and kept my eyes peeled for HussyBrighton's "fat naked men wearing trainers".

The North Sea flood of 1953, which killed 307 people, led to a further building of sea walls and groynes.But there are two big problems with building walls to keep the sea out.

All the inhabitants of the villages and towns along the Holderness coast believe that one settlement's defences – concrete bastions, steel groynes and floodgates – mean the next one along will be still more severely gouged.

"Keep off the groynes".

In 2007, several groynes — imposing piles of granite, some of which extend around a hundred meters into the ocean — were built in a desperate attempt to halt the erosion.

A few months after the construction of those groynes, I visited Chinnamudaliarchavadi and wrote an article about its problems.

Willows thrashing in a gale over a secluded pond; the empty coast at Dymchurch, with its groynes and coastal defences; marshes at Rye subjected to a severe geometry, where even the clouds are rhomboids.

Nice segue from the beach to the bed, there, or from groynes to groins.

The echoes of that disaster are almost audible along these massive sand fringes, the human responses defiantly, hopefully visible in the groynes taking the battle out into the water and the revetments doing their best to shore up the flaky little rearguard cliffs.

Benoît Poelvoorde is God, Yolande Moreau is his wife, and Pili Groyne is daughter Ea (God's son, incidentally, has long since walked out on the family unit).