Sentence examples for sweeping dunes from inspiring English sources

To experience the old Montauk, visit before Memorial Day, when the secluded coves and sweeping dunes are calm, and the cool breezes off the Atlantic make the place feel more like Maine than Long Island.

I'd also come here to see this natural wonder – the Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses, a surreal and beautiful coastal desert of sweeping dunes where rainwater collects to create freshwater lagoons.

In the morning, I walked along the beach to Lamu town itself, or tried to -- as I got lost in white sweeping dunes in the midday sun, and hailed down a boat instead.

How could it not be, located bang opposite one of Europe's most spectacular beaches, a vast stretch of sand that ends in huge sweeping dunes?

The seemingly endless coast is carved with large, sweeping dunes, and almost entirely untouched.

lochbuie.com Distance 5½ miles Northumberland's coast has a special, quiet atmosphere all of its own with sweeping sands, dunes alive with wild flowers in spring, and settlements with long memories of fishing, industry, intruders from the east and early Christianity.

The landscape of eastern Long Island is long and low, with the brown expanse of potato fields and dunes sweeping down to the sea.

The hostel is clean, cheap and has pleasant family rooms, with sweeping views across the dunes.

They arrived in May and stayed on until midautumn, long after the population had emptied and the stores had mostly shuttered, and Philip would send us a Talk of the Town piece about Wellfleet just as the first cold was sweeping up over the dunes on Cahoon Hollow: A piercing blue sky, gentle ocean breeze, low humidity, clean air.

They arrived in May and stayed on until midautumn, long after the population had emptied and the stores had mostly shuttered, and Philip would send us a Talk of the Town piece about Wellfleet just as the first cold was sweeping up over the dunes on Cahoon Hollow: **{:.break one} ** A piercing blue sky, gentle ocean breeze, low humidity, clean air.

In 1676 or so, a Dutch settler named Jan Martense Schenck built a house on the south shore of Long Island, in an area that in those days consisted mainly of sweeping meadows, tidal wetlands, and sand dunes, and which today is part of the Mill Basin neighborhood of Flatlands, in Brooklyn.