Sentence examples for the shore struck from inspiring English sources

Then another wave, greater than the previous one, came with tremendous force and, sweeping the shore, struck the cliff with a thunderous roar.

The French also destroyed three large warehouses containing cargoes of spices, rice and opium and captured three ships, losing two men killed when a cannon shot from the shore struck Sémillante.

Before this was realised on the cruiser's bridge, a shell fired from a gun battery on shore struck Commander Godsal directly, killing him instantly and shattering the bridge structure.

In the process, a single 6 in shell from one of the shore batteries struck Moltke, but the ship sustained no significant damage.

Seen from the shore, they typically strike viewers as all swinging gliding gracefulness.

The destruction and loss of life varied from one community to another because of different landscapes that affected the force with which the waves struck the shore.

But, in the nineteen-thirties, a number of strong storms struck the Shore, followed by a disastrous hurricane in 1944.

Instead, she was grounded off Hospital Point at 10 30, with the help of and, though she managed to force down three planes before she struck the shore.

"That morning I was selling snacks with my mother, and while we were cooking the first big wave struck the shore," says 12-year old Phyo Ei Khine.

Dazed, traumatized, yet completely silent, the video of Omran, like the picture of Alan Kurdi whose body was found washed upon a Turkish shore, has struck a chord.

And on the southern gulf coast in Mexico, an American researcher peering into a mangrove swamp spotted lingering damage 30 years after that shore was struck by an enormous spill.