Sentences with phrase «breaks against the shore»

When a wave passes through the ocean, individual water molecules move up and down in a circular motion but they do not move forward or backward As waves approach shore, the wave length decreases and wave height increases When a wave breaks against the shore, the crest outruns the trough and the crest collapses - this is called a breaker (water moves forward and backward at this point).

When a wave breaks against the shore, the crest outruns the trough and the crest collapses - this is called a breaker (water moves forward and backward at this point).

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If liberals continue to break against the standards as they have in his neighbor New York, opposing the Common Core could win him more votes on that end of the spectrum while simultaneously helping him shore up his base on the right.

Silence reigns here, broken only by the slap of the water against the shore and the thunder of nearby waterfalls, intermingled with the cries of seabirds.