Sentence examples for waves reach from inspiring English sources

PAGE A10 SNAPSHOTS OF HORROR -- The waves' reach spanned thousands of miles, emptying beaches, wiping out families and igniting panic.

Any recovery mission would have to deal with the Great Australian Bight's strong winds and high seas; waves reach as high as 10 metres in winter.

The characters in "After the Quake" all live at a safe remove from Kobe, but the shock waves reach them daily via the newspaper and television.

VENICE — When power and influence implode, the shock waves reach into unlikely corners, and the decline and fall of Boris A. Berezovsky, onetime oligarch and focal point of exiled opposition to the Kremlin, was no exception.

But many of the region's names also seem to indicate places safely out of the waves' reach, like Nokoriya, or Valley of Survivors, and Namiwake, or Wave's Edge, a spot three miles from the ocean that scholars say marks the farthest reach of a tsunami in 1611.

The best surfing is on the Atlantic Coast around Biarritz, where waves reach heights of 4m.

Waves reached 4 metres around the coast of Japan.

At their highest, the waves reached almost 30 metres.

You'd be dead before the sound waves reached you.

Shimoda, a popular beach town about 110 miles southwest of the capital, could be swamped by waves reaching 83 feet.

The shock waves reached a nearby maternity hospital, where Najeeba Saad, a patient, said pregnant women panicked.