Sentence examples for narrow waters from inspiring English sources
The Greek commander, Themistocles, then lured the Persian fleet into the narrow waters of the strait at Salamis, where the massed Persian ships had difficulty maneuvering.
The city was sited strategically on the Bosporus, whose narrow waters connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea acted as a gateway between West and East.
Those narrow waters link the eastern Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara; pass through them, and your path is clear to Istanbul.
But, by 1920, the last year that a Cup event was held here, the harbors had become busy and polluted, and sailors' patience with the relatively shallow and narrow waters of the Hudson River waned.
One consequence of the rapidity of the program was that much of the timber must have been unseasoned; this is relevant to the eventual Greek decision at the Battle of Salamis (480) to fight in narrow waters, where the resulting loss of speed (green timber makes ships heavier and slower) would matter less.
Spain's foreign minister, Josep Pique, had hinted that Morocco was lax in its policing of the rubber dinghies that pour their human freight across and quite often into the narrow waters between the two countries.In this section Guess who wasn't coming to dinner?
I went horse-riding in the mountains along the levadas, a unique irrigation system of narrow water channels that extend for more than 2,000km.
But this narrow watering hole will always be a place where, from 7 p.m. on, barflies, diners and waiters jockey for space.
At the time, Sinn Féin justified the killing of Mountbatten as a legitimate IRA operation, which happened on the same day that the IRA killed 18 British soldiers with two huge bombs at Narrow Water, Co Down, in Northern Ireland.
But the real bonus was no fewer than ten whinchats; five perched on bales of hay, and the others on the reeds along the rhynes – the narrow water-filled ditches that form field boundaries on the Somerset Levels.
According to the North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue Agency chief, Brion McEldowney, a combination of a narrow water main and the wood construction of the house slowed the department's effort to bring the fire under control.
