Sentence examples for wide lagoon from inspiring English sources

The New River terminates in a deep and wide lagoon, with daunting waves and quicksand on the bottom.

A long, narrow, sandy peninsula from which Cape Rojo projects eastward shelters the 12-mile- (19-km) wide lagoon from the Gulf.

I'd taken a canoe across a wide lagoon and into territory controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or L.T.T.E., a guerrilla group that was fighting the Sri Lankan government.

Off to Torcello for lunch, jolting across the wide lagoon, the wind blowing the dark-green water to whiteness, past San Michele with its brick walls, the island on which Stravinsky and Diaghilev lay buried the real and the false glory, one moving past the other, though there are times when one cannot tell which is which.

Off to Torcello for lunch, jolting across the wide lagoon, the wind blowing the dark-green water to whiteness, past San Michele with its brick walls, the island on which Stravinsky and Diaghilev lay buried — the real and the false glory, one moving past the other, though there are times when one cannot tell which is which.

The only extensive areas of young rocks less than about 136 million years old are in the wide, lagoon-fringed delta of the Volta, about 50 miles (80 km) east of Accra, and in the extreme southwest of the country, along the Axim coast.

Still, I'm glad I went to the north-east coast because it is quite astonishingly beautiful, with sandy coves and rocky bays lined with seagrape trees, streams leaping down the mountains in a series of waterfalls then spreading out into wide lagoons between grassy banks before taking a final spin to the sea.

In June, Sylvia and Giddings and the rest of the team undertook to explore a vast graveyard of sunken ships in the forty-mile-wide lagoon, where little scientific work had previously been done.

By Sean Wilsey The author, top left, in a sandolo, a flat-bottomed boat that is better than a gondola at navigating the wider lagoon.

The island's stunning 3-mile-wide lagoon is encircled by a rectangular reef and a dozen small islands, or motus.

With 450 and 750 permanent residents, respectively, Baraulu and Nusa Hope are densely clustered household groups that occupy barrier islands near narrow, 200-m-wide lagoon passages.