Sentence examples for shore at an angle from inspiring English sources
When waves meet a shore at an angle, a longshore current is created as water is pushed along parallel to the coastline.
If you are a strong swimmer, you can attempt swimming back to shore at an angle.
Transects were oriented north-east in order to be perpendicular to the sea shore, in an angle of 62° with the azimuth.
Instead, the energy companies with interest in the lakes practice what is known as slant or directional drilling, in which a well is drilled on land about 1,500 feet from the shore and the pipes tunneled at an angle under the lake.
The readings suggest that hot spots may form because storms expose ancient river sediments — mud and gravel — in a way that causes sandbars to form at an angle to the shore, not parallel to it, intensifying wave action in the surf zone.
Water movement directed at an angle to the coastline will result in the generation of currents along the shore.
Rose told me that, previously, a diver just inside Wakulla's funnel-like cave entrance could sometimes look back up, at an angle, through two hundred and fifty feet of water and clearly see trees on the far shore.
"You approach at an angle," he said.
If they are approaching it at an angle, the slowing-down effect bends, or refracts, the wave crests so that they are nearly parallel to the shore by the time they ultimately break.
"At an angle, so you get at its middle.
