Sentence examples for whole beaches from inspiring English sources
It appeared that the storm, although brutal, would not cause the devastation of Hurricane Wilma, which washed away whole beaches in Cancún in 2005, killed seven people and caused more than $2 billion in damage.
Of Australia, Greer writes, "Everywhere I had ever travelled across its vast expanses I had seen devastation, denuded hills, eroded slopes, weeds from all over the world, feral animals, open-cut mines as big as cities, salt rivers, salt earth, abandoned townships, whole beaches made of beer cans.
You can have a whole beach to yourself.
They turn the whole beach into a platform.
"The whole beach does need to be done".
"The whole beach was swarming with rescuers in no time," he said.
"The main reason for this whole beach replenishment project is to protect those investments.
"The only thing that's going to protect the whole beach is a barrier," he says.
The western third of the beach was backed by a seawall 3 metres (10 feet) high, and the whole beach was overlooked by cliffs 30 metres high.
On the coast, the storm surge, the wall of water conjured by the hurricane's swirling winds and rising tides, wiped out whole beach communities.
"Intelligence is grains of sand; you don't usually get the whole beach," says one veteran.It is true that in 2001, a time when the CIA and other agencies were woefully ignorant of al-Qaeda's methods, the prisoners captured after the overthrow of the Taliban were the first rich source of information to help "map the enemy", as one intelligence source puts it.
