Sentences with phrase «like water waves»

The different shades of blue look like water waves and the gray sort of reminds me of the sky.

The surface waves spread out in all directions from the earthquake's focus, like water waves created from a pebble dropped into a pond.

«This is like a water wave.

Not exact matches

Like fishing: When you're on the water there are waves and wind and weather and fish... you have to understand where all the layers are.

Yesterday at the International CES, for example, home improvement giant Lowe's announced a new wave of products and services associated with Iris, the company's tool that allows you to customize and monitor your internet - connected home devices — like, say, a water shut - off valve that cuts supply when a leak is detected — from a single app on your smartphone or computer.

History, whether interpreted as the realm of determinism or of chance, moves on its way like a tide carrying individual drops and waves of water to melt into the sands or to disappear on the horizon.

So the alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report» Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read, as «Getting Warmer.»

If you look deeply into ANY religion you will see that it doesn't make any logical sense, like talking burning bushes and virgin birth and dead people coming back to life in three days and parting seas with the wave of a hand or walking on water or poison won't kill you and neither will a copperhead.

Or like Xerxes, we scourge the waters of the Hellespont — with great lashes of rhetoric upon the short waves.

In the afternoon, light shifts to blue gold, shadows of leaves wave over the floors like lilies in water.

Some people also like to add raisins to their challahs - I am waving at you right now Ethan - feel free to do so - I think 1/2 cup would be a good amount, and it's best to soak them in warm water, then drain them, before adding to the dough.

He'd like to take his graceful freestyle moves — the so - called Flash Tacks that involve launching into the air in one direction, doing a flip or a twist and then hitting the water at full speed going in the opposite direction — into wave - riding competitions.

The tails come with very durable Waves Rapid monofins, so you can glide through the water like a real creature of the sea.

But understanding what happened below the waves of the English Channel is, as the new Nova episode explains, «like investigating a crime scene spread out over 300 miles and buried under 120 feet of water.»

Depending on how light is measured, it can either be particle - like, lighting up a camera pixel, for example, or wavelike, interfering with other waves like ripples on the surface of water.

The device is designed so that when it's hit by big waves, it writhes snake - like in the water.

«Because the particle goes faster than the light [in this medium], it forms a bow wave like a speedboat in water.

Young passed coherent light through two closely spaced slits and observed a set of interference fringes, a result that occurs with wave phenomena like sound or water.

Light from the stellar remnant, a neutron star located about 400 light - years away, is polarized, meaning that its electromagnetic waves are oriented preferentially in a particular direction like light that reflects off the surface of water (SN: 7/8/06, p. 24).

«The wave would fall on you like a mountain of black water.»

Now if the Earth were to move around and collide with the sun those curves have to change with them, and it creates like a wave, like a wave in water.

The Duke cloak, constructed from a synthetic structure called a metamaterial, prevented those disturbances by bending light waves around the object, allowing them to continue flowing like water in a stream around a rock (concept shown at right).

The group used novel sensors that stick like barnacles to the sea floor — allowing them to survive Ivan's fury — to measure wave height by monitoring water pressure.

These clouds of atoms behave like waves, interfering similarly to merging water waves.

Its spherical wave front, expanding like a ripple from a disturbance in a pool of water and inadvertently carrying the news that human beings have achieved the capacity for interstellar discourse, envelops about 20 new stars each year.

Before the 1970s, researchers believed that a crack could only move as fast as a water wave — like ripple called a transverse wave, which clocks out at the so - called shear speed of three kilometers (1.9 miles) a second.

For example, stimulating the brain of a sleeping person can create a huge wave of activity that «propagates like a ripple in water.»

Seaplanes can only take off and land on water with little or no wave action and, like other aircraft, have trouble in extreme weather.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

True lava forms more enduring structures — like Surtsey in Iceland, which broke through surface waters in 1963 and remains exposed today — while islands of mostly pumice and ash are quickly torn down by the waves.

When the plane wave returns and crosses the molecule, it produces an interference pattern with the stationary part of the electron wave function, like two trains of water waves crossing and forming a checkerboard disturbance.

«What we observe in this galaxy is very much like a massive ocean wave barreling toward shore until it interacts with the shallows, causing it to lose momentum and dump all of its water and sand on the beach,» said Bruce Elmegreen, a scientist with IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and co-author on the paper.

«Like waves on a water surface when a stone is dropped», explains Peining Li, EU Marie Sklodowska - Curie fellow at nanoGUNE and first author of the paper.

El Niños generate large - scale waves in the ocean (these aren't like the waves that break on the water's surface).

Gravitational waves are what we call ripples in space - time, much like when we drop a pebble into water and ripples spread outwards from the point of entry.

When an energetic event occurs (like a black hole merger or neutron star collision), spacetime becomes violently disturbed and energy is carried away from the event in the form of gravitational waves — like ripples traveling across the water's surface after dropping a pebble in a pond.

The researchers think that, as the iron core of the dying star collapsed, it gave off neutrinos that heated the matter behind the shock wave, causing bubbles to rise (rather like they would from the bottom of a pot of boiling water, Grefenstette said) and causing material to slosh around.

The groundbreaking and far - reaching educational recommendations for climate change and health curricula aim to expand the numbers of health professionals equipped to recognize and respond to the health challenges of a warming climate, including deadly heat waves, flooding, air pollution, and wildfires; greater spread of disease vectors like ticks and mosquitos; and growing food and drinking water insecurity.

Bellwether cities like LA and NYC are already gaining momentum, propelled by trendsetting watering holes and restaurants eager to catch the wave.

One interesting thing I have noticed is that I used to take my naps with a sleep mask and the curtains closed, but I'd wake up groggy and having this feeling like I got knocked under by a wave and the beach and took in too much water.

Our heaters, like the sun, produce radiant heat waves which work to heat up water.

Sherman has really come out of his shell lately and has enormous confidence; I'm crossing my fingers that means he will run right into the waves (unlike Lucia, who just likes to wade in the shallow water and refuses to swim).

We loved how the water - based moisturizer felt like a literal wave of hydration upon contact, quenching our dry skin and locking in that moisture all day long.

Kim K.W's beachy waves almost seem wet, mimicking what your hair would look like after emerging from the salt water.

I enjoy taking a long walk; going to the beach, fishing, playing pool, sport and I like anything that has to do with the enjoyment of water or listening to the waves of the beach along side with a cool music...

This is a film in which the laughs just keep coming, floating like waves on the Lego sea (yes, water is made of Legos, everything is made of Legos).

We invested research to distributing computing so our water solver could run across multiple machines that would, in turn, act like it was one big machine so we could do bigger ambitious things — like big cresting waves.

Spend your days on the sand, engage in a number of water - based activities (like surfing, paddleboarding or renting a wave runner), play a round of golf or venture to the action - packed Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark.

Trust me, doing so will greatly enhance your experience, as The Earth Dwellers will be taking significant characters from both series and crashing them together (yes, like a water country wave) into an action - packed tale of struggle and loss and hope and friendship... And maybe a little love, too.

From the driftwood dusted golden sands of Central America, to the world - class waves and vibrant culture of Morocco, you have to get out of the water at some point, so spend your spare time within the delightful company of welcoming locals and other like - minded surfers.