Sentence examples for long swell from inspiring English sources
Therefore, an old swell must always be a long swell.
In the morning, almost a calm, but a long swell on the sea.
Later on, after we've loitered in the Vyne's Tudor chapel, where plainsong plays through speakers, the better to stoke the atmosphere, Maughan will take me outside to a small hut where visitors can buy and customise tiles for the new roof, thus contributing not only to the NT's appeal fund, but to the long swell of history.
A long swell will move through the area Sunday night and Monday, bringing another round of high surf and powerful rip currents.
AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh copyrights have long swollen the Royal Literary Fund.
The long swells that roll from the open ocean toward the shores of northern New England seldom reach it in full strength.
Long swells, telltale of a still distant storm, lifted Ingrish's boat as he hunted for the buoy marking one of his halibut trawls.
A pod of dolphins might cruise by, a few sea lions might bark hoarsely from the pilings, and a pelican might patrol the long swells.
What entices these surfers and looky-loos to Mavericks are waves that become behemoths topping 50 feet, giants that owe their size to long swells, the continental shelf, fault lines, reef beds, storms and shallow water.
And centuries ago when peasants on the lonely shores of Ireland saw the long swells that herald a storm rolling in upon their coasts, they shuddered and talked of death waves.
"So, you would have had buildings in Kathmandu that were able to ride out what would have been essentially long swells of the ground moving beneath them".
