Sentence examples for high wave from inspiring English sources

The study blamed the loss on a combination of sea-level rise and high wave energy.

"And rather than off the South Shore, where you have high wave energy and things are homogenized, this environment has remained relatively well protected".

His right arm flopped from a high wave of greeting and he collapsed into the arms of Mrs Kennedy, who fell unharmed.

They were deposited on warm marine shelf margins receiving high wave energy similar to the present-day Bahama Shelf and northern Red Sea.

The zone is characterized by abundant dissolved oxygen, sunlight, nutrients, generally high wave energies and water motion, and, in the intertidal subzone, alternating submergence and exposure.

The huge 800-feet high wave was caused by a volcano collapsing into the sea and could happen again today, the researchers warned.

Alongside the pier below, hordes of surfers scratch toward the horizon as a rare chest-high wave rises from the glassy water.

The landslip that could occur might send a kilometre-high wave travelling at several hundred miles an hour first to Africa, then to mainland Europe.

A 72-foot-high wave engulfed and totally destroyed the town of Telokbetong at the head of Sumatra's Lampong Bay, killing 2,200 people.

Experts concluded that a fault in the dam's wall could unleash a 20 metre-high wave of water on Iraq's second city, wiping away anything in its path.

But when a giant tsunami hit Japan's northeast on March 11, the breakwater largely crumpled under the first 30-foot-high wave, leaving Kamaishi defenseless.