Sentence examples for lay offshore from inspiring English sources

In case the Haitians did not agree, French warships lay offshore.

Impérial and Diomède had both run aground between Nizao and Point Catalan, their hulls broadside to the beach and their bottoms stove in by the reefs that lay offshore.

Yet considerable untapped oil may lie offshore.

"It is no good for us".The problem lies offshore.

During the Italo-Ottoman War of 1911 12 the city was shelled by Italian warships lying offshore.

Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge, harbouring a rare population of rhinoceros auklets, lies offshore to the east of the city.

Six Senses, Con Dao The Con Dao archipelago lies offshore from Ho Chi Minh City, in the far south of Vietnam.

The Peru-Chile Trench marks the subduction of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate and lies offshore from an area of active volcanism.

Far more sand lies offshore, and these unseen hills of sediment play a crucial role in the overall sand supply to beaches down the line.

Seismic data suggest billions of barrels lie offshore, prompting comparisons to Brunei and Kuwait, and oil companies are expected to bid at least $300m for exploration rights.

While a narrow continental shelf fringes Siberia and the Korean Peninsula, on the Japanese side of the sea there are wider continental shelves, as well as groups of banks, troughs, and basins lying offshore.