Sentence examples for slap of waves from inspiring English sources

The only sound was the slap of waves against the old wooden hull.

Over the slap of wave on hull I could hear the strumming of guitar strings and laughter, my kind of symphony.

Once in the water though, the first slap of wave on head banishes hangovers instantly, and we settle into our rhythm of launching, standing, crashing and being talked to sarcastically: "Bend ze knees.

Embra surges forward and all is quiet except the slapping of waves on its shallow hull.

And I miss the soft slap of Cornish waves, and the fizzing gurgle of moorland waterfalls.

All the old man can hear is the creak of the ropes and the slap of the waves.

We walk toward the sound of the cold slap of the waves and the distant cannon fire of fireworks booming out across the water.

The sounds reminded us of how soothing it was to spend two hours listening to nothing but the rush of the wind and the slap of the waves on the Adirondack's resonant hull.

The novel is less a snapshot of the way we live now than a consideration of the timeless consolations of love and art in the shadow of death, and its resolution — inevitable yet startling, like the slap of a wave — is a triumph.

Everything considered, Raphaela le Gouvello said above the slapping of the waves and the crackling of a satellite phone, her trans-Atlantic trip has gone well.

They're expensive, at $33 the half dozen, but so fresh their vivid brininess hits you like the slap of an ocean wave.