raised beach
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Beach dunes flattened by earlier storms allowed storm surge to reach beneath some of Galveston’s raised beach houses.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
And beach dunes flattened by Hurricane Laura in August and Tropical Storm Beta last month allowed storm surge to reach beneath the raised beach houses in Galveston’s West End.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Nina F. Layard has recently studied the Larne raised beach and exposed a new section.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
The raised beach, on which Robert Redmayne had been first spoken, was about five miles off, and Giuseppe suspected that Redmayne's hiding-place would be found to lie still farther to the west.
From The Red Redmaynes by Phillpotts, Eden
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