Sentence examples for swell and a from inspiring English sources

Both roosts are caused by the meeting of swells from the open ocean with opposing tidal currents, so the Bore of Duncansby, at the east end of the Firth, is to be feared when there is an easterly swell and a flood tide, and the Merry Men of Mey, at the west end, stage their revelries with a westerly swell and an ebb tide.

The first class stamp shows the 17 m Severn class lifeboat in action in the Sound of Berneray 20 km south west of Barra in a 3.5 m swell and a wind.

The Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) is nestled in the dramatic rock formations that comprise Utah's San Rafael Swell, and a generous layer of iron oxide colors the landscape Martian-red.

The best experts predict that if we suffer as much as a ten percent shortfall for any period of time, let alone twenty percent, it will be a neighbor-against-neighbor "Mad Max scenario" as food shortages swell and a storm of economic collapse surges across the country.

Visual observation indicated that the tablet matrices appeared to swell and a viscous gel mass was created when they came into contact with the medium.

TRIPOLI, LEBANON — As segments of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community have become emboldened by events in Syria, Islamists and militants have seen their influence swell and an increasingly aggressive rhetoric has found a more receptive audience.

The Minotaur was a novice of arc and swell and dip, a new-minted connoisseur of smooth and tender and sway.

Organ music swelled and a choir sang.

By halftime his left eyelid was swollen and a purplish bruise had formed above his cheekbone.

Cormorants skimmed the swells, and a few sea lions poked their heads above water and watched our progress.

For his part, No I.D. builds a backing of plinking pianos, gospel swells and a Kanye-esque beat.