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Sentence Examples Small waves lapped against the shore, a quick and steady pulse carrying pieces of driftwood and a few leaves. Ostreids were also able to fix themselves to movable objects such as driftwood or cephalopods, thereby further facilitating their dispersal. Two days later we are building a small driftwood fire on a tiny islet in the Barrier Islands a mile out into the open North Pacific. We had to create a bouquet for the leading lady and a display for the theatre foyer and another using a huge piece of driftwood. Others huddle on or against driftwood with notebooks propped on their knees. He dumped the last armload of driftwood on the heap and regarded it with a proprietary air. Picture frames, bought cheaply from a homestore chain, can be painted in white emulsion to give a driftwood look. Props are many and various, including statues, pieces of driftwood, rusty farm tools, wind chimes, etc. The ocean would rush away, leaving the sandy beach full of crabs and clams, seaweed and driftwood, shells and stones. There's all this driftwood everywhere that's been washed ashore by the storms. She looks back as she crests the mound of sand, and sees the crazy man standing shin-deep in the sea, holding a piece of driftwood. Finally she rose from the piece of driftwood and walked away down the ledge, offering no explanation to the others. I picked up a piece of driftwood and did the same, yelling for no reason, kicking the sand and flinging it about. But all he had were some notes he'd made, which described finding the man lying like a piece of driftwood on the beach. She sat down on a piece of driftwood that sat on the beach, and looked out to sea. In the hall there is a marvellous wood feature, carved out of a piece of driftwood that came down the river. Males construct a shallow scrape nest on open, bare ground, sometimes near a clump of grass or piece of driftwood. The current owner, Martina Finnegan, is a mirror designer who creates wooden frames from driftwood and locally sourced whitethorn and hazel. She'd found plenty of driftwood and deadfalls in the vicinity of the gazebo, enough to construct a crude lean-to on the creek bank. He saw deep tire tracks in the sand, with wood chips and a few scraps of driftwood littering the beach. Show More Sentences At windswept Banshee Bay, our campsite beneath the casuarina trees was made comfortable by some beachcomber's driftwood furniture. The players scavenged driftwood and even raided a timberyard at night for materials, while 74 tip-up seats were donated by the local cinema. Some people had scrawled words of consolation and encouragement on the remaining chunks of driftwood. Blackened and twisted debris was scattered far and wide over across the gentle slope, like driftwood on a beach. They require no soil and are secured to driftwood, shells or bark, capturing nutrients and moisture from the air. On one side, where it threatened to fall over into the garden, it was shored up with baulks of timber, driftwood picked up on the strand. They gather driftwood for fuel and share a dinner of roast pigeons and boiled samphire. In the next scene, he builds an airy dome, something like a beaver lodge, out of bleached driftwood. The owners painted the ceiling off-white and applied a stain to the rustic beams to make them look like driftwood. The players scavenged driftwood and even raided a timber yard at night for materials, while 74 tip-up seats were donated by the local cinema. As the waves smashed against the pillars of the floating barge, I noticed the driftwood that was totally at the mercy of the current. Stems, twigs and driftwood embedded in the sand and mud were used to carbon-date the core sections. Picture frames, bought cheaply from a homestore chain such as Ikea, can be painted in white emulsion to give a driftwood look. The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school. We bounced along the waves until we reached a rickety driftwood structure on a sand bar. Community projects such as constructing new kayaks from driftwood and sealskins, and the skills both sexes brought to the process made a favorable impression on him. Into sand, using driftwood, the head honcho drew a large scallop shell, outhouse-size. Imposing at 75 inches on a side and 7 inches deep, the painting, like eight others shown here, has holes drilled in its edges, like worm-eaten driftwood. Tom poked at the edge of the fire with a piece of driftwood. The only training BP has provided for the public is to teach us how to safely pick up trash and driftwood from our own beaches. Show More Sentences He collected some driftwood to feed the fire he was to make. Jess was reeling in a piece of driftwood covered in a bit of seaweed. They report on concretions from the Palaeogene London Clay of southern England that contain marine driftwood that had been extensively bored by shipworms. Her painting was predominantly abstract, and her sculpture often made use of found items such as pieces of driftwood, which she used in painted constructions. They are often seen perched on fence posts or pieces of driftwood. For him, tire planters are a cheap and charming local idiom, an inland version of the beachcomber's driftwood. Right now, Mr. Fleming is nursing a slipped disk, caused by hauling a massive driftwood stump to his truck. A group of women, who appeared to have been drinking, were seen beating the leopard seal with sticks of driftwood on the Gisborne beach on Saturday afternoon. It included furniture, wooden boxes and even garages, and all manner of flotsam or driftwood. The driftwood she found on the shore, 'u'l, acquired a different name if it had a proper shape and was not a broken, tangled mass. One of them was to remove some of the driftwood on that island, and only in a certain location. One year, a full-size horse made of driftwood stood in an orchard clearing among short grass and spring bulbs. But most of the men were left in the water clinging to driftwood until, a few days later, a ship saved 49 of the strong and the lucky. In all countries, the use of treated wood or sea-salt laden driftwood and the use of plastics as a firelighter or fuel should be avoided. Do not burn scrap or garbage, treated wood or wood such as driftwood from the ocean which has been exposed to salt or other chemicals. There was nothing special about the large piece of driftwood just a short distance away, or so he thought until it moved. A proper crib is built from new, squarecut timber, not wire or driftwood or round logs tacked together with small nails and hope. Sculptures depicting serpents, reptiles, fowl, and other animals were fashioned by Doyle from tree limbs and trunks, driftwood, and scrap pieces of lumber. Some are very small, no larger than a piece of driftwood, and others are bigger than a three-storey house. When the wind meets a solid object like a piece of driftwood or an old lobster crate it slows down and deposits the sand along the edge. Show More Sentences A 10 cm diameter chunk of fossil driftwood includes cryptic fossils of some importance. To determine whether the driftwood record provides evidence for recent and ongoing coastal submergence. Individual elements such as pieces of driftwood or bits of furniture retained traces of their former life, but also melted into the larger organic whole. The driftwood, which can be anything from 100 to 1,000 years old, is the remains of the ancient Caledonian pine forest, which once cloaked Scotland. On Ba Kan Tiang beach, in contrast to Pimalai's rich endowment of marble, is its beachside neighbour, a restaurant that seems to be built mostly from driftwood. The bathroom is fit for a king and queen, with his and hers basins, large mirrors framed by driftwood, a separate shower room and toilet and a huge tub also encased in wood. The government has mobilized military units to clear driftwood from dam drains, which could slow drainage of water from reservoirs if another typhoon lashes the country. Never burn garbage, plastics, painted or treated wood, plywood, particle board, cardboard or salt water driftwood. The trail begins near the entrance to the town, extending through patches of dogberries and fireweed, along a beach filled with driftwood and shells and into a wooded area. Opposite the gallery desk was an enormous piece of bleached driftwood. Forgotten debris, dormant flotsam and jetsam, Bleu nature uses driftwood, a raw material that does not deplete the Earth's natural resources. It was as if a beachcomber, having spent years collecting driftwood, had suddenly realized that the pieces made up a complete shipbuilding kit. There was raw chicken on a driftwood slab for this farewell meal too. I'd hate to see how much worse the Dodgers could be right now without Tracy's enthusiasm for crafting batting orders out of driftwood. Small turned wooden crafts, for example snowmen, mushrooms, lighthouses using found round wood, driftwood, deadfall, as well as some figured woods such as curly or birdseye maple. God's touch torches us, makes firebrands of us and sets driftwood on fire. Rooms are decked out with driftwood and nautical features, and there is even a bunkroom laid out in the style of a ship's cabin. Make bold statements with pieces of nature in the home using burr oak and driftwood furniture but with an element of lightness. Amid the flimsy shacks of driftwood and plastic stand new houses, a nearly finished children's nursery and the first timbers of a community workshop. It's driftwood in the dunes, the sparkle of blue beach glass. Show More Sentences Marine organisms have been moved around the world for thousands of years, with ocean currents and attached to driftwood, and later aided by human travel overseas for migration or trade. Coastal cleanup operations collected nearly 270,000 metric tons of waste, composed of heavy fuel oil mixed with seawater, sand, stones, driftwood and plastic bags, as well as collection equipment, nets and other objects. Rites done on a lakeshore or seashore can be illuminated with balefires of dried driftwood collected prior to the rite. In the spring or early summer of 1649 the 12 remaining men built boats from driftwood and went up the Anadyr. Tarpots bubbled over driftwood fires where men calked the seams of smacks and shallops and patched their dugout canoes. Both the kayak and the umiak were made of skin stretched over a frame carved from driftwood, bone or ivory. Beaches strewn with driftwood and the odd sunseeker greet us at the shore. Ordinarily Jerry and Rachel were able to keep the woodbin filled with driftwood gathered along the shore. A blue and white theme is complemented by driftwood and beach pebbles, combined with some seaside planting of agapanthus and sea hollies. There I have seen returned men who, like driftwood cast up after the whirlwind and the whirlpool of the last war subsided, are now left on those desolate homesteads, uncared for and unnoticed. The nest is a large heap of sticks, driftwood, turf or seaweed built in forks of trees, rocky outcrops, utility poles, artificial platforms or offshore islets. The twisted trees and high tossed driftwood hinted that Skedans could be as thoroughly fierce as she was calm. She was downright about everything. Naturally occurring debris, such as driftwood, are also present. It was as though she wore a mask made from toadskins. Her clothes were crocodile skin the color of old tobacco, and she carried a staff of twisted driftwood. The Germans made repeated attacks on the bridge using bombs attached to driftwood, midget submarines and later resorted to shelling the bridge with 88mm barrages. Examples from Classical Literature A couple of fairish paddles were chipped out of bits of driftwood, and a towline a hundred feet long was made of lariats. The moon brooded upon the lulled waves, and quested among the ridges of driftwood for pearly shells. There was plenty of driftwood, and our fires were always cheery and comfortable. As the district of the former is destitute of driftwood and potstone they are compelled to buy both articles from their neighbors. Oliver walked, for poche needs must scramble over huge boulders, fallen pines, and tangles of driftwood. He held on with his hands and rested his feet on a pile of driftwood. The night before you'd collected driftwood and stacked it by the fire. Nothing was in sight but the boats and here and there a mass of driftwood. The sun came out, the driftwood dried, and at last a fire was kindled. But he was a log of driftwood which they had found on the beach. The dead and for the most part unmerchantable wood behind my house, and the driftwood from the pond, have supplied the remainder of my fuel. A WIRRAL couple tied the knot on board driftwood pirate ship the Black Pearl. So, beholding the dead stag, they felt of its ribs, in a knowing way, and lost no time in kindling a fire of driftwood, to cook it. A piece of dancing driftwood caught his attention and his eyes followed it down the current. There were no stones or rocks available, but along the shore she found quantities of driftwood deposited by the river at a slightly higher stage. I may be either the driftwood in the stream, or Indra in the sky looking down on it. Some were now piled up like driftwood after the subsidence of a flood. He looked thoughtfully at the multicolored flame of the driftwood fire. At that moment the woods were filled with another burst of cries, and at the signal four savages sprang from the cover of the driftwood. The river was coming up pretty fast, and lots of driftwood going by on the rise. Show More Sentences Along sandy, mile-long Moonstone Beach, you'll find piles of sun-bleached driftwood, teeming tidepools, and a scattering of its namesake semiprecious stone. So great was it that I thought it must be a mighty gulf until the mass of driftwood that came out upon the first ebb tide convinced me that it was the mouth of a river. It has already been stated that the upper half of the island was a naked rock, and destitute of any other defenses than a few scattered logs of driftwood. In the worst hit area of Gisborne on the North Island, residents and workers were out Tuesday clearing driftwood and debris off roads in coastal communities. Find more words! 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