Sentence examples for upon the beach from inspiring English sources

Waves crash upon the beach.

If I had found one body cast upon the beach in some lonely place, it would have affected me more.

I ran north for ages until I came upon the beach huts of Sandilands, and then we walked south until we reached Chapel Point.

In that marvellous painting The Shore, made in 1923, the postwar defences lie face-down, as it seems, like a vast plane crashed upon the beach.

The room was full but hushed, the tables occupied by the sort of people who are particular about their food, who have bespoke shoes, who have worn white flannel trousers and walked upon the beach.

Lightning strikes sporadically, the accompanying thunder barely masking the roar of the wounded dragon, which eventually thinks better of the battle and retreats, leaving the battered giant standing dazed upon the beach.

Pressing in upon the narrow exit, both from the east and from the west, the enemy began to fire with cannon upon the beaches by which alone the shipping could approach or depart.

Before Rommel was assigned defense of the Atlantic Wall, obstacles to amphibious landing were being built upon the beaches of Belgium and France.

Two guys in their 40s pick me up in an old car at an agreed-upon spot near the beach.

When he comes upon her on the beach, she says, without even turning around: "I heard your thoughts clatter all the way down the road.

He may spin a yarn about a general who, upon landing on the beach, ordered his boats burned to let his men know that there was no turning back.