Sentence examples for nearest land from inspiring English sources

The operator always calls one of the nearest land stations; N.Y., Newark, Phila., Baltimore & Washington.

Late Wednesday, SEB lost its mast 1,200 nautical miles from the nearest land.

A granite stone was also erected, at the nearest land spot to the crash site.

The nearest land was the Philippines, more than two hundred miles away, and it took eighteen days to get there.

Conrad wrote that "the true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land".

Ironically, they decided not to sail towards the nearest land, the Marquesas Islands, believing the inhabitants to be cannibals.

(They are trained to find the nearest landing spot).

We went to Sennen beach near Land's End.

Galleys being relatively unseaworthy, war at sea among the ancients was always near land.

That made the ocean near land both significantly colder and dirtier in appearance.

I would wake to the sound of surf on Porth Chapel beach near Land's End.