Sentence examples for ocean against from inspiring English sources
The energy of the ocean against the precariousness of our boat seemed a cruel mismatch.
It already was a rare craft, a mahogany schooner racing across the ocean against a pack of sloops and yawls.
In Myanmar similar planning approaches and partnerships could safeguard the ocean against illegal fishing and foreign industrial vessels.
The ensuing life-and-death struggle will be over quickly, but the pulse of nature that drives the winter ocean against the cliffs in the distance will go on forever.
His description of the storm itself still works, too: "So the hurricane passed, — tearing off the heads of the prodigious waves, to hurl them a hundred feet in the air, — heaping up the ocean against the land, — upturning the woods.
To our right the ocean crashes against the black, rocky shore.
Then there's the ocean, slapping against the cliffs of Big Sur, rolling gently toward Santa Monica — as if to say, loudly, convincingly, "Last stop!
It is an archetypal American match pitting a city-slick team from an ocean coast against plodding farm boys from the heartland.
We are fortunate to have a chance to escape the fate of other coastal states where the beaches are gone and the ocean beats against stone walls.
Then there's the ocean, slapping against the cliffs of Big Sur, rolling gently toward Santa Monica as if to say, loudly, convincingly, "Last stop!
