Sentence examples for hitting the land from inspiring English sources

It's essentially plotless – it's just them as stowaways on a cruise liner running amok, briefly hitting the land, then running amok again at the end.

For fear of hitting the landing craft, American bombers delayed releasing their loads and, as a result, most of the beach obstacles at Omaha remained undamaged when the men came ashore.

You'll see the moon hit the land, the fire burn through the town and all the inhabitants you have met there.

The sea, as it hits the land, works on our every sense, and our senses feed imagination.

Hampton is using nautical analogies, referring to: The captain on the bridge thing, when the iceberg was hit, or the ship hit the land.

Many people don't look down first, and so those who jump from the north end of the bridge hit the land instead of the water they saw farther out.

Officials said that the officers were traveling from the town of Karliova to their base in Bingol Province, in the predominantly Kurdish southeast, when their vehicle hit the land mine.

The Twitter revolutions, which we are now so familiar with thanks to the oil states of North Africa, had first hit the land of the blue-eyed sheiks thanks to clever tactics like a comic YouTube video of people struggling with the mayor's name, or providing simple online tools for supporters to color their Facebook pages Nenshi purple.

The device hit the Land Rover, but police said it caused minimal damage.

They were all... under the age of 15," said Ahmed Abu Hassera, 22. "When the first shell hit the land, they ran away but another shell hit them all," said Abu Hassera, whose shirt was stained with blood.

This means that they can start off as just a ripple of water in the middle of the ocean and become bigger and bigger until they become a gigantic wave when they hit the land.