tombolo
Example Sentences
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This tombolo, called “Angel Road,” connects the stack of Shodo Island, Japan.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
The tombolo behind the breakwater is now acting as a large groin in the beach drift.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Eventually enough sediments accumulate to connect the island to the mainland with a tombolo.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The breakwaters have acted as islands and the sand has been deposited in the low-energy water behind them, in the same way that a tombolo forms.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
There is a good example of a tombolo in Figure 17.1, and another in Figure 17.22.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
