combers

Example Sentences

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While FuGo balloons were technically an intercontinental weapon, the long range of combers and, later, missiles would shrink the globe further.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2023

Raimondi’s team created a Web site for interested divers and tide-pool combers to contribute photographs and observations of sea stars in the wild.

From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2022

John McCarthy, of WA Coastal & Marine, thanked scallop divers, beach combers, dive clubs and also scientists at the Scottish Association of Marine Science, near Oban, for their help with the research.

From BBC • May 1, 2016

Old lake sailors described how, when a car ferry is pitched by high-running combers, the freight cars break from their clamps.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a fabulous place: when the tide is in, a wave-churned basin, creamy with foam, whipped by the combers that roll in from the whistling buoy on the reef.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck