Sentence examples for windblown waves from inspiring English sources

In 1871, Kelvin applied a mathematical analysis to windblown waves on the sea and, some two decades later, Helmholtz did the same for clouds.

Over the course of the next three and a half hours they watched with mounting horror as the water rose higher and higher still, until the windblown waves out of the northeast were breaking six, eight, and even ten feet high on the glass, sending water through mylar-filled gaps in the enclosure and soaking the carousel's carved and painted wood.

This can't be right". Over the course of the next three and a half hours they watched with mounting horror as the water rose higher and higher still, until the windblown waves out of the northeast were breaking six, eight, and even ten feet high on the glass, sending water through mylar-filled gaps in the enclosure and soaking the carousel's carved and painted wood.

"I could have maybe applied a bit more pressure, but I wanted to win honorably and I came really close". Sunday was a marathon played out in four- to six-foot windblown waves.

The camera pans across pristine blue water before closing in on a woman with romantic, windblown hair, her waves whipping gracefully around her face.

Another masterpiece is "Model for the Fountain of the Moor" (1653), which represents a muscular fellow with windblown hair surfing an ocean wave on a giant conch shell.

Now I was there, walking on actual Hawaiian sand (coarse, strange-smelling), tasting Hawaiian seawater (warm, strange-smelling), and paddling toward Hawaiian waves (small, dark-faced, windblown).

Scientists have long tracked these distinctive waves, finding them on the windblown sea, on sand dunes, among clouds and even in the churning gases of Saturn and Jupiter.

And in the seven weeks since the storm they are already seeing signs of natural recovery, as waves remold the beaches and windblown sand builds up at the foot of the dune scarps.

In lush color and alternating waves of tumultuous sound and windblown quiet, this film piece restages scenes from the summer day when thousands of people gathered along the railroad tracks to pay last respects as the train carrying Robert F. Kennedy's body made its way from New York to Washington for burial.

SYRACUSE — Standing on the windblown rooftop of a twisty glass building here, Ed Bogucz waved one arm toward the downtown skyline and the other toward a neighborhood of abandoned houses and vacant lots where he is investing in green-home technology.