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Sentence Examples Some lucky people also come across leopards basking on the rocks early in the mornings. Either side, water plummets over the dizzying drop in great cascading sheets, crashing down on the rocks far below. They reported bodies everywhere, in the water and on the rocks, in caves and at abandoned campsites, the survivors disfigured by ugly pockmarks. I remember sea frets, I remember walking down there at night, I remember sitting on the rocks with the waves crashing inches away. My tackle seemed entirely appropriate in the garage but proved cumbersome on the rocks. Below, crabs sidestepped on the rocks and all kinds of fish darted by, making the snorkelling superb. The valley of rocks still bears the marks of early pioneers who wrote their names with axle grease on the rocks. Once again, the RNLI lifeboat was called out, when a quarter-decked fishing boat was reported in danger of foundering on the rocks. There were a lot of rocks to pick through, and it was a ways down, but once I perched on the rocks by the waterside it was worth it. I love to just sit on the rocks for hours and watch and listen to the ocean. She and her little piece of flotsam were going to be smashed to bits on the rocks! We drank bourbon on the rocks or straight shots of tequila or double vodka Martinis. They had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks. Pour all into shaker filled with ice and serve on the rocks, or steam the first two ingredients and add Chivas. The eastern slope has numerous large oysters on the rocks, guarded by loyal moorish idols and bicolour parrotfish. There was a huge bombora breaking to our left, and huge seas crashing on the rocks around the cliffs to our right. And Warne has the added problem of a personal crisis to deal with, his wife reportedly on the plane back to Oz, their marriage on the rocks. Scattered on the rocks around it is a rough circle of river smooth pebbles with holes in them. Carefully but confidently, I step on the rocks that still emerge from the surf and climb back to the sandy beach. A mess on the rocks is sure to put you off your cream tea until a couple of tides have cleaned it up. Show More Sentences Now she was pacing on the shore, stepping awkwardly on the rocks while her tail lashed furiously. He finds himself a single dad, with a career on the rocks, living in New Jersey with his father. My relationship has been on the rocks ever since my boyfriend left our ballet company to join a dance troupe in another state. At the time of making the film, the director's own marriage was on the rocks and he was romantically involved with an actress. His relationship with Sissy on the rocks, Bud takes to practicing bull riding. Her parents' marriage is on the rocks as she embarks upon a career in television news. The elder daughter finds to her consternation that her marriage is on the rocks. This film is a tragicomic ensemble piece about people on the edge and love on the rocks. He starts smoking an exclusive brand of cigarette and drinking single malt whisky on the rocks. My favorite drink is malt scotch, either on the rocks or with a splash of soda and a twist. Yesterday, salvors were also hard at work on the cargo ship Sagitarius, which is grounded on the rocks off Leaches Bay. If civil liberties are left to popular votes, they can similarly founder on the rocks of majoritarian advantage. Large schools of butterfly perch hovered, while sea perch glared at us as they sat motionless on the rocks. People are going back to basics like Scotch on the rocks and Tanqueray and tonic. Dogfish resting on the rocks are surprisingly alert, twitching away almost as soon as we notice them, with none of their usual torpid behaviour. Some say St Patrick himself built the chapel after surviving a shipwreck on the rocks below. The only sign of civilisation was an ancient taverna wedged on the rocks, and so we moored the boat and headed in for lunch. If the tide is out, there are usually half a dozen seals sleeping on the rocks, and we just sit there and watch. I'm sitting in the shade of a battered old ngaio tree that is toughing it out on the rocks above Otanerito beach. Alex had stood on the rocks above him, and could see the blood trickling out from beneath the spinifex tussocks. Show More Sentences When you're done noshing, you can kick back in this setting on a wicker sofa with a sweet caipirinha on the rocks in hand. She was careful not to stub her toes on the rocks that stood out above the surface of the sand. The 264 ft ship with her 42 ft beam just missed the lighthouse, but the wind and waves drove her high on the rocks, where she stuck fast. Below Greyabbey, I watched the oystercatchers breaking cockle shells on the rocks. We see the surf pounding on the rocks below in the moonlight as Barnabas continues. Keyan was in the middle of a swallow of vodka on the rocks, which he drank like water, when his glass stopped abruptly in mid-swallow. I coasted to a halt, removed my helmet and sat down on the rocks, watching the lake. Knocked cold, Lakpa collapsed on the rocks, heaving in convulsions, Kodas wrote. The water was running fast enough to keep any kind of moss from growing on the rocks, so they didn't have to contend with extra slippery rocks as well. The pineapple margarita, well, I prefer my tequila resposado and on the rocks. I got updates on their love life, and learned whose marriages are on the rocks. On 13th March 1951, a cyclone damaged the column, bringing the statue crashing down to break into pieces on the rocks. No sailor was able to resist the fatal attraction of their song, causing them to be shipwrecked on the rocks. At high water the wreckage was submerged, but at low water the rocks are exposed and it was possible to walk out on the rocks to the crash site. Many shipwrecks on the coast are caused because vessels can not regain their 'sea room' before being blown up on the rocks. Something as bourgeois as kitchen rotas should not be considered worthy of discussion and yet what alternative lifestyle hasn't floundered on the rocks of human frailty? There were some vivid photographs, and we could see the high-water mark on the rocks on the shoreline. They found wild leek and other spring edibles and added it to their picnic on the rocks. There are a great many flowering bushes such as the distinctively Australian banksias, and red-tailed skinks are often seen sunning themselves on the rocks. Just as the two lady golfers teed off at the tenth hole, they heard a loud bang and saw the helicopter come down over the beach and fall on the rocks. Show More Sentences He may have been lucky in business, but his marriage is on the rocks, his daughter barely speaks to him and even his friend, Francis, holds little interest. Klynan cast a spell on the rocks and they turned red and burned. Like the one of Alexander Gunn who, in the early 1900s, swore he saw a mermaid on the rocks I was now gazing at. Previous exhibits have included metal insects crawling over a car, curvy stone women sunbaking on the rocks and wire igloos on Tamarama Beach. At the top of the next hill you will see a lamp post on the left and an orange topped trail marker on the rocks to the right. The helicopter broke apart on impact and came to rest on the rocks in the middle of the river. The lack of bottom damage to the boat indicates that it did not capsize as a result of having grounded on the rocks in the area. The French found many bodies on the shore and on the rocks, among them bodies of women, some of whom still had nursing children. Or walk to Admirals Arch to see hundreds of docile kangaroos and thousands of New Zealand fur seals playing on the rocks. However, in the wake of September 11, 2001 all hope for a full economic resurgence was dashed on the rocks of an ailing international economy. In the event, budget limitations, service intransigence and political expediency put the plans on the rocks. Orient's pools are built right on the rocks at the edge of the ocean which means you can have that beachy feel without having to get too much sand between your toes. There was, however, a rumor that later, when the alpha, beta, gamma theory went temporarily on the rocks, he seriously considered changing his name to Zacharias. About 18 years ago the captain of the mv Superior Producer, a freighter of around 1500 tonnes displacement, got it wrong and ended up on the rocks. Its gamble that the yields on particular bonds were out of synch with short term interest rates ran aground on the rocks of the Russian government's debt default. The idea of a calm, swift Parliament foundered on the rocks of religious conflict. It seems to me that the U. S. economy has been on the rocks for about a year and a half and we are just starting to feel the effects of that in Canada. The era of the dollar may not be over, but the special conditions under which it reigned during the last decades are being dashed on the rocks of the current recession and financial crisis. They had run out of sea room, and the vessel ground to a halt on the rocks, so gently that the chief engineer did not realise they had wrecked until the engines were shut down. I perched on the rocks, expecting the drummers to come into view. Show More Sentences Get it on the rocks, neat, or straight up. In the early hours of the morning people could be seen climbing up, or sitting down to meditate on the rocks made smooth by the thousands of pilgrims who've been coming here for the last 25 years. Garnish with a green olive or a twist of lemon and enjoy it straight or on the rocks. In this context, Opel is only one example of how this sector is currently on the rocks, but, of course, many car makers are in the same situation. Occasionally beautiful waves that finish their run on the rocks. If we don't deal with some of those issues, a lack of governance for research ethics in general, and biotech research in particular, could end up scrapping our ship on the rocks. Watch penguins make their nightly pilgrimage to shore, buy milk, cheese, wine and Ligurian honey fresh from local farmers and see fur seals frolic on the rocks and a colony of Australian sea lions at Seal Bay. Despite the fact that it's not the prettiest beach in Nerja, it does have a long cement path on the rocks that's a good place to do a little sport like jogging or cycling. The pair, from Liverpool, got into trouble when their boat, understood to be a re-furbished lifeboat, ran aground on the rocks off Crail in Fife. Drink it straight, on the rocks, or in you favorite mixed drink. These screes formed as a result of ice and weathering erosion on the rocks of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, that form the fells to the east of the lake, towards Eskdale. Meanwhile, the news that Kylie was working in a strip bar does not go down well with David, so both brothers find their relationships on the rocks. The bartender served them each a gin and tonic on the rocks. Dinosaur bones and fossilised footprints can be seen in and on the rocks exposed around the island's beaches, especially at Yaverland and Compton Bay. Even if you don't spend long in the water it's still an awe-inspiring sight from the boat to see them clambering on the rocks and darting between the snorkellers. Examples from Classical Literature An eider duck's nest was found fully one hundred yards from the water, unsheltered on the rocks, with five eggs and clean down. There was no trace of the body in the waters, no drop of blood on the rocks. I enhanced the likeness very much, last Friday morning, by singing a barcarole on the rocks. Here, as at lanzarote, they were taken for Algerines, and the guns on the rocks began to fire at them. Ten bob I got for Molly's combings when we were on the rocks in Holles street. Something flopping on the rocks gave a mewling cry and somersaulted back into the water. His face was not much the worse for its battering on the rocks. We found they had left, and there was no water on the rocks. The old Whig Party went to pieces on the rocks of sectionalism. The sun had nearly reached the meridian, and his scorching rays fell full on the rocks, which seemed themselves sensible of the heat. Early in the morning we would pick few unripe but sweet carobs and pound them with a clean stone on the rocks. Boris is sorer than a boiled owl at being run on the rocks by a girl. They must keep at least two miles out, or theyll get spitted on the rocks. Nothing showed on the rocks, nothing showed on the face of the cliff. Then he tossed his tin dishes away and they fell clattering on the rocks. Long, slow swells were running, and they boomed inshore on the rocks. The Southern Cross is on the rocks, be sure of it, and good men with her. Now I feel as if I had to get out on the rocks or the fields or the water and spout them. The pictographs on the rocks are zoomorphic representations of birds, animals, and deities made with natural pigments and excrement. A fair ship is she, but rudderless, and the wind blows on the rocks. Find more words! 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