Sentence examples for perpetual wave from inspiring English sources

By August 2005, Dickson had made significant progress, raising $48.5 million as part of a newly created Perpetual Wave fund-raising campaign.

Mr. Zaugg, a 1998 national kneeboarding champion from Independence, Minn., said the wake generated by his boat — a $50,000 Correct Craft Super Air Nautique — is like a perpetual wave.

And on and on it goes, a perpetual wave of made-up claims and allegations that crumble beneath the slightest scrutiny, but that collectively create a din of negative background noise.

But it is what's unseen 23 feet below the ocean's surface that makes the Wave Glider a perpetual motion green machine and that its investors are gambling will mint money from oil companies, scientists and the military.

Gravel beaches harbor diverse interstitial invertebrates [ 5], but the perpetual stirring of gravel by the waves usually make them unsuitable as habitat for vertebrates.

It's a vibrant city, the perpetual revolving door for immigrants where one wave displaces the other.

It is a world between worlds in which the realities are frequent physical discomfort, the wearying alternation between light and dark, anxieties about food, the mercies of wind and waves, not to mention the perpetual company of strangers.

If he had had a notion of paradigmatic (perpetual) motion, it would have been something like wave motions in the sea or the cyclical pumping action of the traditional Chinese waterwheel used for irrigation with rising full troughs of water complemented by the falling empty troughs (receptacles), which he had used to depict the yin-yang operation of taiji.

The perpetual problems of relatively low salaries and tough working conditions have been exacerbated by a wave of retirements and by a strong economy, which has lured prospective teachers into the private sector.

In their London shop of horrors, these Philadelphia-born expatriates wave their magic cinematic wand and bring to life a dark, enchanted world of perpetual dread, decay and surreal foreboding.

But even as they waved "Goodbye Oil", conservative-minded folk like the American Spectator's William Tucker rattled angrily about "perpetual motion machines" and the collective shoddiness of the liberal press.