Sentence examples for reefed from inspiring English sources
Not one platform off California has been reefed.
Divers and many fishermen want more to be reefed; shrimpers complain that reefs prevent them from dragging nets across parts of the ocean floor.
Louisiana's take has averaged $270,000 per reefing and the state has seen 336 of them, says Mike McDonough of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.Currently, less than a tenth of America's old oil and gas platforms are reefed.
John Hocevar, its head of ocean campaigns, concedes that in some locations reefed platforms, if non-toxic, may increase marine life.
On the last night coming in I reefed the mainsail three times and we rounded the Cape of Good Hope in five-metres high breaking waves.
The newspapermen present were as much landlubbers as she was; they had no idea that a schooner's topsails couldn't be reefed.
Can we entice you with our Cool Blue Ocean Acidifier with a topping of crumbled reef coral?
Over footage of the reef, the voiceover says: "The Great Barrier Reef has lost almost half its coral cover.
The study did say that storms, starfish attacks and coral bleaching were responsible for the dramatic loss of coral cover on the reef.
WWF reef campaigner Louise Matthieson said the dredging itself would have "serious impacts, like destroying seagrass beds, regardless of where the spoil is dumped".
And it's just a short (but steep) walk from Flamands beach, which has magnificent waves that roll in off the reefs, clapping and hissing, and then racing up the sand in protruding fingers of surf.
