Sentence examples for sea standing from inspiring English sources

According to Plimpton, the bedroom where Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea," standing up at his work desk in "a square foot of cramped area," was a hive of clutter, clean but enormously crowded.

But these virtual characters are lost and alone in this huge open world, swimming and sinking in a vast sea, standing still in a rain-soaked city street, or running without a destination.

In the abstract language of Rothko, such literal detail a bridge of empathy between the real spectator and the presentation of a transcendental landscape is no longer necessary; we ourselves are the monk before the sea, standing silently and contemplatively before these huge and soundless pictures as if we were looking at a sunset or a moonlit night".

But Eurasia was not a solid landmass then, with shallow seas standing in the way of a westerly advance of the tiny primates, and Western Europe was more an archipelago of islands than a continent.

Then I look out and see a sea eagle, standing 20ft away, profiled like a carving.

The actual canoes of Truk were given elegant prow and stern ornaments with highly stylized sea swallows standing beak to beak.

Of the 50 states, Florida is the most vulnerable to rising sea levels, standing just a few feet above the current level.

Sea trout (standing in for salmon), monkfish, chicken breast, a pork chop, a rib-eye: the array of entrees is entirely unsurprising.

Whether on an AstroTurf-covered terrace in Chelsea or in a freshly mown backyard in Westchester County, scenesters this summer are rolling up their capri pants and sipping their sea breezes standing in 10 inches of water.

In this work the 2wABC is applied to harmonic linear water waves; its performance is tested against the analytical solution for wave propagation over horizontal sea bottom, standing and partially standing wave as well as wave interference of waves with different periods.

SHE was driving on the grounds of Kennedy International Airport and talking about the importance of keeping the grass 6 to 10 inches long when she spotted something out of the corner of her eye: a sea gull, standing on the tip of a runway.