Sentence examples for hilly coast from inspiring English sources

A slight warping of the sea bottom in the vicinity of Torres Strait would be sufficient to join New Guinea to Australia; conversely, a slight rise in sea level may submerge a hilly coast and leave the hilltops remaining as small islands just offshore (such as those off the coast near Boston and the islands off the Maine coast).

De Palma adds hints of "Vertigo" and "The Birds" (Staten Island's hilly coast stands in for San Francisco) as well as music by Hitchcock's longtime collaborator Bernard Herrmann, but he gives them a political twist by way of Grace's reports on police brutality and her suspicion of official indifference to Phillip's death on the ground of race.

Survivors said Spanish forces targeted them with rubber-coated bullets, a claim that Spain denies.Morocco and Spain's joint efforts to control the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, two Spanish outposts on the hilly northern coast of Morocco, are failing.

ABOUT two hours south of the Los Angeles sprawl and 45 minutes north of the growing congestion of San Diego, bluff-shrouded beach communities line up along the hilly California coast, cupped around rocky coves or sandy beaches wide enough to land a jet.

It will be the first of its kind in Russia and one of the largest in the world, and it will look like a steel footprint over this hilly strip of coast.

The coastal terrain is hilly and rugged; the coast itself is marked by numerous bays and fjords, and there are many offshore islands.

The region comprises a hilly area near the coast and an inland valley occupied by a seasonal watercourse, the Wadi Ḥaḍramawt, that runs parallel to the coast before turning southeastward to reach the sea.

It's an ungainly appellation that is bisected by the Salinas River, which neatly separates the cooler, more hilly terrain on the coast from the warmer weather and more fertile soils inland.

In 2008, we sold our five-bedroom London terrace and moved to Lewes, Sussex, because it's hilly, close to the coast and near where my parents have settled.

(5) Early Pliocene uplift raised the Miocene peneplain to its present elevation leading to reexposure of the sub-Cretaceous hilly relief near the coast.

It is a completely different country from the tropical coasts and hilly forests of Sri Lanka's south.