Sentence examples for touched land from inspiring English sources

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The boat touched land.

No way to picture where it touched land again, or who you'd be when it did.

A half-second after the front of the float touched land, the windows in the wheelhouse rattled.

"Peter came by boat to pick me up at my parents' house, which is on the water, and we never touched land," Ms. Golomb said.

The fleet then passed near the Nicobar Islands ("Necuveran"), touched land again in Sri Lanka, or Ceylon ("Seilan"), followed the west coast of India and the southern reaches of Persia, and finally anchored at Hormuz.

Kicked up from the seabed, the tsunami amplified in size and slowed in speed as it moved into the shallows beside the Japanese coastline, and by the time it touched land it was a wall of water, black and smooth.

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Only when they touch land can they apply for asylum.

"It's about three months long, and if you touch land, you're out.

The heart of the storm began touching land before 7 P.M. and pounded the county with heavy bands of rain and high winds.

So at last, blurred to near irrelevance, the boundary finally leaps into Rockaway Inlet and turns seaward in midchannel, never to touch land again.

As soon as you touch land take it off, throw it back as far as you can into the sea, and then go away again". With these words she took off her veil and gave it him.

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