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Sentence Examples Sea level rises will follow, catastrophically for many low-lying countries. Many vineyards planted in low-lying valleys alongside rice fields have high water-tables and a high risk of flooding. The coastal region of the Humber estuary is low-lying and gradually eroding inland. Tuvalu is one of dozens of low-lying islands threatened with rising sea levels. The low-lying, marshy land has been improved by drainage over the past generation. Many a low-lying island in the Pacific and Indian Oceans faces the very real threat of slipping beneath the sea. The area of low-lying swamp or marsh, as revealed through archaeology, is shown in brown. The objectors say the problem is that Iburndale Beck runs alongside the land and the area is a low-lying flood plain. Shallow pools were then dug in low-lying land along the rivers at Sraghmore a mile away and on the winter freezes provided the ice. A spokeswoman warned river levels are high and with further rainfall forecast there may be some flooding on low-lying land near to rivers. A big problem is that salt water has contaminated a lot of wells in the low-lying areas when this tidal wave came in. The Tuamotus are a group of low-lying atolls that form part of French Polynesia. The Mimika region is largely a low-lying swamp intersected by rivers on Irian Jaya's southern coastal area. On Fiji's low-lying islands, salt water intrusion can come from above as well as below. They also say that urban sprawl on hillsides and in low-lying areas has been allowed to grow out of control. Breeding habitat is mostly inland around low-lying marshy areas near lakes. The most dramatic effect would be an increase in sea levels due to melting of the polar ice caps causing many low-lying costal areas to flood. Yet when the worldwide economy capsized in late 2008, the ripples of recession arrived like a King Tide to the low-lying island. Mounting one of the low-lying walls that surround the park, Hall addressed the returned marchers. During dryer intervals lightning strikes started fires even on the low-lying areas where they may have spread through the crowns of the trees. Show More Sentences Cellars of most apartments in the low-lying area were flooded, with cars and two-wheelers submerged in water. Many low-lying homes and roads are already flooded, but the Withlacoochee is still rising and is expected to crest on Wednesday morning. But what if we build dams to generate electricity or protect low-lying regions from floods? But others appear to find the low-lying land that borders the temperamental waters of the River Ouse a perfect des res. Where Lowell lived, this consisted of low-lying conifers, alders, and gorsy thicket. We could see low-lying islands in the Pacific totally disappear as a result of the effect of greenhouse gases. In the season there would be plenty of bullrushes in the dykes and ditches in the low-lying areas with a high rainfall. Do they allow people in low-lying neighborhoods where the old levees were breached to build again? Inland wetlands are common on floodplains along rivers and streams and in other low-lying areas. Hiding places can be found in between rocks, in tufts of grass or on the branches of low-lying trees or plants. He often incorporated sofa-lined niches or low-lying daybeds abundantly piled with tasseled cushions. Most tsunamis appear as an advancing tide without having a developed wave face, resulting in rapid flooding of low-lying coastal areas. The Baltic Sea itself, and the low-lying land around it, have provided routes for trade and communication through history. Large-scale evacuations of people from low-lying areas can prevent the massive loss of life due to such flooding. Second, flooding of low-lying areas, due to raised sea levels will expand breeding areas. Ms. Lori Foster: I didn't mean to interpret that hake was a low-lying fish or anything. For example, settlements are prohibited from being built in low-lying areas that are floodprone. Rock deserts with little vegetation other than lichens and a few low-lying hardy forbs cover large areas. Temperatures tend to be high as a result of its predominantly low-lying terrain. At worst, major parts of some low-lying countries and islands may become wholly or largely inundated by rising sea levels. Show More Sentences In areas bordering lakes or rivers or islands, digging latrines is problematic because of the low-lying water table. In a forest, seek shelter in a low-lying area under a thick growth of small trees or bushes. The rosettes have small low-lying leaves, whereas shoots can be tall with numerous small flowers that produce siliques containing seeds. The biggest concern is for low-lying areas on the southeast of the island that will be impacted, we understand, by dawn tomorrow. During a prolonged break in the rains the frogs and toads are hushed, except in jhils and low-lying paddy fields. Its low-lying location has long made it victim of tides, winds, and now the rising waters of the Adriatic. In his most remarkable feat, he constructs a low-lying town in a dry lakebed only to drown it for a spectacular inundation. Some of these low-lying areas, with waterlogged deposits blanketed by alluvium, have provided good evidence for Roman farming. He also reviewed the progress of some World Bank-aided projects and the choking of drains by plastic waste and landfills in low-lying areas. Heavy rain over the weekend brought flooding to low-lying ground on the outskirts of the historic city and to a city centre car park and river walks. The Marshall Islands are a group of low-lying coral atolls and islands in the central Pacific Ocean. On Iona, the threat is to its white sand beaches and the coastal machair which protects low-lying areas further inland. Next day the roads and hollows or low-lying places resembled closely the sandy, pebbly beach on the sea shore. In low-lying areas, the country's water is so salty that many farmers now grow taro in tin-lined containers or concrete-lined planting beds. A spokesman for the agency said that the sea wall protects a large area of low-lying land against the risk of flooding. Well, the lagoons are shallow basins of water planted up with aquatic plant species that naturally occur in low-lying wetland areas. Far ahead to the north, across a rock-strewn gulf, was a chain of low-lying mountains locked away behind an otherworldly wall of haze. The round house was found directly beneath the low-lying site during survey work for the showroom which will sell Harley Davidson motorbikes. Policies that presently encourage development in low-lying floodplains and coastal areas should be immediately reexamined. The trains are usually stored in low-lying subway yards and some of those may flood during the hurricane. Show More Sentences Swamp forests of bald cypress and tupelo grow in low-lying areas such as floodplains or abandoned river channels. With mid-Atlantic states left sodden by an unusually wet summer, the winds toppled trees and rains flooded creeks and low-lying areas. In lawns, mowing of hawkweeds is ineffective because the low-lying rosettes are missed by mower blades. The city straddles a sandy spit bordering the Gulf of Mexico, it's numerous 10-storey concrete hotels built on low-lying sand-dunes. When not avoiding jungle walks I would go on low-lying, scarily thin boats with outboard motors that would race you out to the water villages. This area will cut a wide swathe along largely low-lying land from the Route K roundabout to behind Tauriko township. Full of silky, pillows, a futon sat against one of the pale, pastel purple walls while her low-lying bed covered with sheets tie dyed in green, gray, purple, magenta. A boxy, low-lying structure about 2 feet tall was surmounted by precarious, spindly towers outfitted with tiny ladders rising to a height of 6 feet. People may have first been drawn to Thornborough by the River Ure, a route between the Pennines to the west and Yorkshire's low-lying vales to the east. Just like water automatically rushes to low-lying areas, entrepreneurs automatically rush to the vacuum created by the pressure of demand and non-availability of alternatives. All the Moon's multi-ringed impact basins are older than the Moon's second kind of crust, consisting of basalts that have flooded low-lying areas to form the lunar maria. You can find modern racing sleds next to traditional Inuit komatiks, low-lying sleds where the musher simply packs his camping gear and sits down on top of it. Boundaries have been drawn mostly in the mid-hills and low-lying plains, leaving boundaries in the mountainous areas in both east and west unsurveyed. Five feet of seawater tore through the streets of the low-lying Brooklyn neighborhood Monday night. The lithic finds, many of which are arrow heads, date back to the days of the forest, before the low-lying coastal lands were cleared and cultivated. This causes water to overflow the river banks and inundate low-lying lands adjacent to the channel. Flooding also takes place along lake and coastal shorelines, when higher than normal water levels inundate low-lying areas. This is particularly important in low-lying countries such as Bangladesh, where a one-metre rise in sea level would inundate half of the country's rice land with saltwater. Caribou subsist on low-lying mosses or lichens they scrape off the tundra with their hooves. Maintain sufficient air circulation and ventilation to prevent flammable concentrations from forming, especially in low-lying areas. Show More Sentences This single work, made up of 53 low-lying pieces, was fashioned by a computer-directed machine extruding coils of cement. The section of Line 100-3 in which the rupture occurred had been installed in 1969 in a low-lying alkaline area surrounded by pastureland. Hay crops in low-lying fields, which remain inaccessible due to persisting excess moisture, continue to lose quality. A significant area of the town is low-lying, an attribute that, along with rising sea levels and the fact that land has been sinking for thousands of years, makes it increasingly vulnerable to flooding. The country's drainage and flood protection systems are equally vital, as cultivated fields are generally located on low-lying coastal plains that are susceptible to frequent flooding. It is precisely in those low-lying coastal areas that a large proportion of the world population is concentrated and key economic centres located. The village is low-lying and relatively flat, two features that make it particularly vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate and rising sea levels. Indeed, Elmer was raised on what old-timers down home still call the Island, a 2,000-acre tract of low-lying sand and black gumbo that the Mississippi periodically reclaimed. As the population continues to grow, people move away from the countryside to the cities and low-lying coastal areas, attracted by the hope of a better life. Southern Somalia is a low-lying land slightly above sea level, where the two major rivers of Shabelle and Juba play a central role in the life of its inhabitants. We are not talking solely of rising sea levels and the disappearance of small island States and the flooding of low-lying areas in Bangladesh or the Netherlands, which we are all aware of. It is common practice for flight crews to follow low-lying terrain such as lakes, rivers, roads, and railways when flying in conditions of low visibility and low cloud. When we're talking about disastrous forest fires in the West, usually we're talking about low-lying, dry forests of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir. The results could be catastrophic for polar people and animals, while low-lying lands as far away as Florida could be inundated by rising sea levels. Seek shelter in low-lying areas, such as dense stands of small trees. The bocage, low-lying country with high hedgerows, offered insufficient routes of advance and canalized American movements, which the Germans easily countered. The infrastructure protecting low-lying Amsterdam and Rotterdam are built to withstand 10,000-year storms. His father Sampat Shirke also cut his hand as he pulled his son up to the roof of their one-room tenement in Kalina suburb, a low-lying district of Mumbai. As temperatures get warmer in spring, the eastern massasauga rattlesnake begins its journey from wet low-lying areas to dry rocky areas where it spends the summer. The law of the sea, requiring that any ship in close proximity to a sinking ship will take the survivors on board and deliver them safely to land, should be applied to the people of low-lying Pacific islands. Show More Sentences The depression is filled with Late Glacial varved clays, which form most of the low-lying plain of the wetland. In New Zealand, authorities have ordered people in low-lying coastal homes and camping grounds to evacuate. The local topography is the result of ancient glacial activity and consists of relatively flat land dotted by numerous small lakes, many low-lying hills and acres of swampland and muskeg. So low-lying and waterlogged is the ground in these fields that the trenches here were actually built-up sand bag mounds, or breastworks, and shelters were surface huts of sand bags and timber roofed with galvanised iron. India has serious concerns because it already experiences the impact of climate change in low-lying areas, which are more vulnerable to inundation by water from sea level rise and increasingly severe storms. The water level then in low-lying areas was so high that it inundated even the second floors of residences in Marikina City. The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is a low-lying island country located in the northern Pacific Ocean. The annual expectation at one particular stop of listening to the querulous whistle of Upland Sandpiper as the sun's rays light up the low-lying mists covering the fields-magical! Cyclone Sidr hit the most heavily populated low-lying area in the world, killing 3,400, leaving 1,000 people missing and millions without livelihoods. By letting a fast-moving fire roll over the sage, low-lying plants are given an opportunity to access soil nutrients and moisture and take hold. Many of the rivers in Northumberland have overspilled and flooded low-lying areas, including several roads. Its weakness relative to extended technicolor is essential to understanding the lightness of H compared to the low-lying spin-one technihadrons. Like all rivers, the flooding is caused by there being too much water to be conveyed within the river banks, resulting in the surplus water spilling onto the surrounding low-lying areas. Populations in low-lying islands and deltaic regions are particularly at risk,' he says. This is a low-lying neighborhood, but this right here is the high spot. Even so, there will be limits to adaptation, as some ecosystems will be lost altogether and some low-lying lands will end up under water, necessitating migration and resettlement. They breed in low-lying coastal areas on the islands in Fox Basin, which is in Canada's central Arctic, and they overwinter in coastal New England, mostly from Massachusetts to North Carolina. Interaction between the river's flow and its tractable bed has given this section of the river a look all its own, with low-lying, elongated islands, interlaced with shallow channels. However, during the group discussions, residents raised doubts as to the efficacy of the sea wall in preventing flooding and contamination of drinking water wells for low-lying homes. Villages in low-lying, coastal Bangladesh have long made use of raised earthworks and designated a solid building on high ground to run to in a cyclone. Show More Sentences The east coast of James Bay is a skerry coast, rocky, rolling and complex, fringed by shoals, and with more than 500 flat and low-lying islands and islets. Forest-tundra, characterized by open stands of black spruce and tamarack with an understory of low-lying arctic shrubs, dominates the southern part of the region. Kompong Kleang has become a bit of a tourist trap over the years but the village provides an excellent perspective on how to make low-lying areas habitable. The low-lying clouds and intermittent rain provided the perfect drab backdrop for UCLA's first road game. One such estimate is that by 2100, the rise in sea level could be more than one metre, which would inundate some 15 to 17 per cent of the low-lying costal areas of Bangladesh, displacing approximately 20 million people. A second trimester low-lying placenta which is posterior or centrally located over the os is more likely to persist as a placenta praevia at term. Because the rain will be warm, the Weather Service warned that mountain snowpacks could melt, worsening the flooding conditions in low-lying areas. Further, pumping water from the low-lying delta into the aqueduct serving the Southland is a tricky operation due to the risk of salty backflows from San Francisco Bay. Its low-lying profile has always made the car vulnerable to being a bone-shaker, but intelligent damping in the suspension has helped to provide a very acceptable ride. Moorland-nesting merlins and golden plovers head downhill and may spend their winters on low-lying farmland or coastal marshes only a few miles from where they bred. Examples from Classical Literature He remembered that these huts of the gold-seekers were on the low-lying banks of the creek. To the right are low-lying pastures and marshes, with here and there a grazing cow. Two miles off the lee end of Upolu is the low-lying island of Manono, which is, however, enclosed in the Upolu barrier reef. One stretch of low-lying shore is parklike and grassy, flower-crowded, and dotted here and there with a plume of spruce or fir. The Tarai is low-lying, marshy land covered with tall, feathery grass, beautifully monotonous. As this small bit of land is low-lying, more than once when a southeaster has raged, the tiny isle has become entirely submerged. The Indiana made the low-lying atoll at last and lay-to outside. The ship had run upon a low-lying bar that splits the channel about a quarter of a mile from the sea. The purpuratus is a lake trout, and found only in low-lying lakes. It's actually a rare British native, its chosen territory being low-lying water-meadows. The climate of these low-lying coast plains was sultry and malarial. In the middle of the first dogwatch, cocoanut trees were sighted due south, their tufted heads rising above the water and marking the low-lying atoll beneath. Find more words! 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