Sentence examples for stretch of shoreline from inspiring English sources

Today people know this stretch of shoreline best as the site of Antony Gormley's Another Place.

On the way back, we drove by a pachinko parlor and a concrete-bunkered stretch of shoreline.

Or should it remain what it still largely is — the last semiaffordable beach town left on this gilded stretch of shoreline?

The problems seemed most acute at Rockaway Beach, Queens, a 7.1-mile stretch of shoreline facing an open ocean with strong rip currents.

It was a moonless night in Jamaica Bay and a storm had pitched the black water, making the conditions even more dangerous than usual as he sped along a rocky stretch of shoreline in pursuit of his bounty.

The city is hardly known for surfing, and even hard-core surfers often malign Ocean Beach — a notoriously deadly, dirty and foggy six-mile stretch of shoreline — for its fickle, and occasionally furious, surf.

4 p.m. 8) SALTY SEA AIR Just to the south of the Ocean Beach Pier is a newly constructed concrete path that leads to one of Southern California's most spectacular stretches of shoreline.

All communities are subject to periodic disturbances, ranging from events that have only localized effects, such as the loss of a tree that creates a gap in the canopy of a forest, to those that have catastrophic consequences, which include wildfires that sweep across vast landscapes or storms that pound immense stretches of shoreline.

Large stretches of shoreline and narrow coastal plains have been massively engineered for coastal defence and protection against erosion, but also for the construction of marinas, leisure harbours and artificial beaches, resulting in the emergence of veritable artificial seafronts.

Tasmania's west coast is one of the fiercest stretches of shoreline in Australia; the highest waves ever recorded in the country (19m) were here, and supply ships trying to enter the Pieman River in the 19th Century were regularly torn apart.

We assessed differences in the accumulation of wrack between natural (sandy beach, rocky reef and rockpools) and armoured stretches of shoreline, and the efficacy of eco-engineering interventions (man-made rockpools and planted saltmarshes) in enhancing the accumulation and retention of wrack.