Sentence examples for off the lagoon from inspiring English sources

Cutting off the lagoon from the Baltic is another shingle spit (the Curonian Spit), some 60 miles (100 km) long, capped by low fixed dunes and fringed by high moving dunes of white sand.

So after decades of study, the government has begun to build a multibillion-dollar system of 79 movable barriers to seal off the lagoon at times when surge tides threaten the city.

A consortium of agencies and private groups has cordoned off the lagoon and is laying plans to poison the seaweed.

Once completed, 78 mobile flood barriers will be raised from the seabed to shut off the lagoon in the event of rising sea levels and winter storms.

For a third, you're considered a shockingly idle slugabed if you rise after 7.30am, when the sun is scorching the mist off the lagoon, and a hopeless lush if you're caught hanging out in a bar, looking for yet another pina colada, after 9.30pm.

But the Philippines says the Chinese boats left the mouth of the lagoon roped off to prevent other fishermen from entering.The American statement backs the multilateral approach to the disputes championed by ASEAN.

Meanwhile, the trusty vaporetto is hooting its horn, ready to set off across the lagoon for the final destination, the port of Chioggia.

"He further stated that Brewster washed her hands off in the lagoon".

In fact, they say, surging waters will overwhelm the main way Italy is planning to fight the danger -- 79 mobile floodgates meant to cut off the Venetian lagoon and its islands from the highest of the high tides.

Sheared off by the explosion, cliffs a thousand feet high were left edging three sides of the lagoon.

And then I was off, cruising around the lagoon, doing laps up and back along the beach and into the next cove.