Sentence examples for lagoon off from inspiring English sources
The project provided a softer approach to massive engineering projects designed to protect Venice from the encroaching sea, specifically the MOSE (Experimental Electromechanical Module) project, which is a series of submerged mobile gates that cut the Venetian Lagoon off from the Adriatic Sea to prevent flooding.
The vanished island-city of Motya, situated in a shallow lagoon off its western tip, was founded by Phoenicians in the eight century BC.
The whales, one of just two populations of gray whales in the world, were thought to be extinct here until a 1995 study showed that 106 of them were feeding in a shallow lagoon off the northeastern coast of Sakhalin.
Several times peacock bass jumped in the boat, cornered against the bank and trying to escape us as we pushed up a small channel to enter a lagoon off the main river.
The Curonian Spit, 50km of near-deserted pale sand creating a lagoon off the Baltic coast of south-western Lithuania, is the place to head for a beach holiday.
This is not recommended for those who are likely to give out halfway across, like me, which is why I am still on this side of the divide, straddling my board, in a lagoon off St. John in the United States Virgin Islands.
The sea below our table was oil smooth, the harbor a sheltered lagoon, blocked off from the ocean by the long, hilly, granite bulk of Bodega Head.
Inside the guts of the island is a blue lagoon, sealed off from the sea by rock but connected to it by an underground river.
But the Philippines says the Chinese boats left the mouth of the lagoon roped off to prevent other fishermen from entering.The American statement backs the multilateral approach to the disputes championed by ASEAN.
The sands of Falasarna in the north sit near the ruins of an ancient Greek city, whilst the small island of Elafonisi in the south lies in an azure blue lagoon set off by pinkish white sand.
New last year, these 12 flats, each sleeping up to four (one double, one twin) are located bang on the waterfront in the tiny Languedoc port of Marseillan, which opens onto the Etang de Thau, a vast lagoon cut off from the sea by miles of sandy beach.
