seawalls in English
A spokesman for the agency said that the sea wall protects a large area of low-lying land against the risk of flooding.
Use "seawalls" in a sentence
1. The details of this architecturally rich city reveal themselves when the peninsula’s sidewalks, seawalls and secret Alleyways are
2. In the 18th century, they built seawalls to prevent the Adriatic from bursting destructively into the lagoon.
3. These techniques--seawalls, groynes, detached breakwaters, and revetments—represent more than 70% of protected shoreline in Europe.
4. The company was founded by Charles Clendenny and Jeff Follin who have been building Boathouses, seawalls, docks, garages, and houses in Louisa, Spotsylvania, and Orange…
5. Armoring comes in many forms, from relatively temporary sandbags (below, left), to seawalls (middle), to offshore breakwaters (below, right) that block wave energy at harbors.
6. Modern seawalls aim to re-direct most of the incident energy in the form of sloping revetments, resulting in low reflected waves and much reduced turbulence.
7. Shoreline Armoring, the practice of constructing bulkheads (also known as seawalls) and rock revetments, disrupts the natural process of erosion, which supplies much of the sand and gravel that forms and maintains our beaches
8. Older-style vertical seawalls reflected all the energy of the waves back out to sea, and for this purpose were often given recurved crest walls which increased local turbulence, and thus increased entrainment of sand and sediment.