Sentence examples for low-lying ground from inspiring English sources

They characteristically do a great deal of damage in low-lying ground around such inlets.

His was an island in negative, a patch of low-lying ground protected from a surrounding sea of floodwaters by 2,200 feet of packed-dirt levees.

From 1,000 feet or so I can look east across low-lying ground into Nottinghamshire, pockets of mist clinging to cold, still air beneath me.

Because many airports are situated on low-lying ground, which is more likely to provide the flat land necessary for airstrips, the sewage system must often include extensive pumping facilities.

One other excavated site deserves special attention; this is Lothal, a small settlement built on low-lying ground near a tributary of the Sabarmati River on the west side of the Gulf of Khambhat.

The sleet is driven horizontally by the relentless wind which sweeps in from the Atlantic and across the low-lying ground of the north-west coast at Ghabhsainn (Galson).

The low-lying damp ground can produce a visual effect known as a Fata Morgana when the Tor appears to rise out of the mist.

On the south side of the castle there is a gentle slope across low-lying, boggy ground, but along the northern side, the Gull Crag cliffs form a natural barrier up to 30 m high.

Low-lying plants or ground cover, of course, did not include grass until the latest Cretaceous but rather consisted of ferns, horsetails and other non-angiosperms during the Jurassic and most of the Early Cretaceous and possibly some angiosperms by mid Cretaceous times (Aptian-Albian) when Nigersaurus lived.

Some residents and environmentalists argue that low-lying brush, so-called "ground fuel", is the primary concern rather than the 500,000 eucalyptus trees dotting the hills.

In Amelia, a suburb of Beaumont, officials helped residents in low-lying neighborhoods to higher ground, and in Beaumont proper, flooding inundated streets, rendering some impassible.