Sentence examples for towering waves from inspiring English sources

Amid a hurricane and towering waves glittering with ice, they navigated across the open ocean.

The general hospital was far enough inland to avoid the towering waves.

Computer models suggest the storm has generated towering waves that exceed 46 feet southeast of its core.

Towering waves, blinding rain and creamy fogs still confound captains and crews, but rescue efforts have improved.

But tens of thousands of others clogged highways leading to the beaches and rocky bluffs to see the towering waves that were expected.

The ruggedly beautiful Portuguese coast boasts awe-inspiring views of towering waves thundering against dramatic cliffs, and today we have a chance to experience this.

A towering wave of destruction crashed down through the Hudson gorge and proceeded to smash the southern end of the local moraine to smithereens.

Their security throughout the tumbling fugue of the demon's chorus was abetted by Petrenko's pinpoint communication of the beat; the exultant culmination of Praise to the Holiest had the vertiginous feeling of a towering wave about to break.

What a surfing photographer like LeRoy Grannis wants is to freeze the moment at an instant of maximum tension: the towering wave just before it crashes from a sheer glassy green wall into frothy chaos; the surfer, an escape artist, scooting along just ahead of the angry white water that threatens to engulf him and take him down.

Age, injury and the demands of job and family have thinned the ranks, and Generation Next seems less willing to conquer a towering wave with only its hide.

A section of its fishing pier, about 150 feet long, that extends over the Atlantic was toppled by towering, surging waves.