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    Use "breakwater" in a sentence

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    breakwater


    1. broken on the breakwater of political indifference to their cause


    2. The breakwater that surrounded the harbor was barely visible now


    3. Fourteen ships of similar stance were tied alongside the breakwater and wharves in Aramell harbour


    4. Once outside the breakwater, the mainsail was hoisted and the boat sailed northwards


    5. Truman was directed to rendezvous with a Costa Rican fisherman on the narrow peninsula forming the breakwater for the port of Bluefields


    6. Half way across the harbor, the lights on either side of the opening in the breakwater were their only guide to the open sea


    7. Beyond the massive concrete tsunami breakwater wall laid the


    8. protected by another massive tsunami breakwater wall and floodgates


    9. In the distance a massive breakwater wall


    10. 5 billion and was the world’s biggest breakwater wall

    11. concern that wave deflection from the breakwater wall could increase the wave size,


    12. “To the end of the harbor breakwater wall,” he said, putting a thousand yen note


    13. the harbor was protected by two tsunami breakwater walls; they overlapped in the center


    14. end of the breakwater wall and continued around the point on foot


    15. Yukino stopped dead in her tracks on the breakwater wall


    16. side of the harbor, the breakwater wall towering beside her


    17. past the hair salon, water splashed over the tsunami breakwater wall


    18. The sea rose above the breakwater wall and


    19. the road that ran for 400 meters along the side of the tsunami breakwater wall


    20. Tatsuya looked at the water pouring over the tsunami breakwater wall

    21. Seko sped along in the shadow of the tsunami breakwater wall


    22. He watched the wave rush at the breakwater wall that protected the harbor; the


    23. Mackeller looked back to where the submerged breakwater wall was, and his


    24. made when the tsunami hit the breakwater wall, and the energy was deflected in the


    25. Mackeller and his copilot watched the wave crash into the tsunami breakwater wall on the


    26. and filmed the crumbled breakwater wall; beached across a road was the ship, the Asian


    27. The Kamaishi breakwater wall was destroyed and is now in the process of being


    28. breakwater wall in the world, and the song about it is also real


    29. was deflected off the Kamaishi breakwater wall


    30. Breakwater: a structure built or used to break the force of waves in a port or anchorage

    31. To accommodate the increased number of lake carriers hauling iron ore cargoes, the Ashland (Wisconsin) Breakwater Light was built


    32. Other historic and upgraded lights include the Racine (Wisconsin) Harbor North Breakwater Lighthouse (built in 1910) and South Breakwater Light and Wind Point Lighthouse (1880)


    33. At six o'clock the following morning, a fishing boat found George Mellis's body pinned against the breakwater at the mouth of Penebscot Bay


    34. George Mellis's body would have been swept out to sea had it not been caught against the breakwater


    35. When the troops of General Gaitán Obeso were defeated after a sixty-three-day siege, she rebuilt the house that had been damaged by cannon fire, adding a beautiful sea terrace that overlooked the breakwater where the surf would vent its fury during the stormy season


    36. -Lagoons Reefs are often formed around tropical islands or out from the shore, making a breakwater which leaves still waters in a lagoon


    37. “Let’s go down on the breakwater,” she said, “instead of dancing


    38. So he strolled down on the rocks toward the breakwater with a rather slow and uncertain step


    39. A light clatter of stones on the breakwater above his head roused him from his reverie


    40. You see, this breakwater is a friend of mine

    41. “I am going down to the breakwater, to look at those poor swordfish that you killed,” she said, with some reproach, as she passed by him


    42. Twilight was drawing down, damp and dusky, over rocks and harbor, as Stephen hurried down to the breakwater


    43. The little waves lapped and gurgled through the rocky spaces of the breakwater; all about them was the quiet evening of the sea


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    Synonyms for "breakwater"

    breakwater bulwark groin groyne jetty mole seawall pier wharf dock jutty

    "breakwater" definitions

    a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away