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Example sentences for "wavelets"

Lexicographically close words:
wave; waved; wavelength; waveless; wavelet; wavelike; waver; wavered; waverers; wavering
  1. The wavelets were still choppy, but Polly Jarley never thought of a wetting.

  2. No sound except the sighing of the breeze round the cliff and the splash of the wavelets as they break on the pebbly beach beneath.

  3. Even in this blazing sunlight it had that sort of chilly glitter one sees in the crevasses of a glacier; and the wavelets sparkled like diamonds.

  4. The morning was brilliant with blue wavelets sparkling under a light breeze as we passed out to the east and saw the low, flat bluff of Cape Virgenes sink below the horizon.

  5. And the silvery murmur of the wavelets soothed the twinkling sleep of leaves.

  6. In excellent accord these tenors and basses, so blameless in their living, lifted up their voices and sang they "would that the wavelets of ocean were wavelets of sparkling champagne!

  7. Scarcely ten feet from this verandah, and on the edge of the sheer precipice, was built a low wall, leaning over which Arthur could hear the wavelets lapping against the hollow rock two hundred feet beneath him.

  8. A thin mist veiled the sea, and the little wavelets struck with a sorrowful sound against the rock below.

  9. The broad river, with its dull brown flood breaking in oily wavelets against the embankment wall, exercised a fascination.

  10. A series of slight mechanical shocks is experienced by a body plunged in the water, as the wavelets reach it in succession.

  11. One reason doubtless is that at their upper ends the lakes were shallow, and incompetent on this account to raise wavelets of any strength to act upon the mountain drift.

  12. In hearing, the minute auditory nerves merely receive an impulse from the vibrations or wavelets of the elastic atmosphere, and this constitutes what we call noise, tones, music, voice.

  13. The wavelets will therefore form a plane wave LM, which will move in the direction perpendicular to itself (i.

  14. Now notice that a line PQ parallel to the original waves lies on one of the crests from each slit, and therefore the wavelets will make up a plane wave parallel to the original wave.

  15. A southwestern breeze is ruffling the river, and drives the little wavelets in the same direction as the current.

  16. Lying by the lake yesterday afternoon, with my eyes shut, while the breeze and sunshine were playing together on the water, the quick glimmer of the wavelets was perceptible through my closed eyelids.

  17. It had not sea-space to raise big waves, but it blew the white tops off the wavelets which hurried out against, and on the top of, the sou'westerly swell that was heaving its way in.

  18. Spray skatted gleefully over her bows and the wavelets made a gurgling music along the clinker-built strakes of her.

  19. From this setting of emerald foliage it scintillates like a gem: its wavelets lave a narrow pebbly shore within which a bottom of pure white sand gleams upward through the most transparent water ever seen.

  20. Dark clouds had been gathering around, and the wavelets began to play over the hitherto calm ocean.

  21. Before we had finished our dinner, the foremost wavelets appeared so far away over the plain of the sand, that it seemed a long walk to the edge that had been almost at our feet a little while ago.

  22. With the lisping of the inch-deep wavelets at our heels we stood and regarded the worn yet defiant, the wasted and jagged yet reposeful face of the guardians of the shore.

  23. Shann glanced with new interest at the green water surging in wavelets along the edge of the fiord.

  24. The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.

  25. In the faint light that hovered from the breaking of the wavelets he soon found his boat, and saw a tall man standing by her.

  26. Hail, lovely Sirmio, and gladly greet thy lord; and joy ye, wavelets of the Lybian lake; laugh ye the laughters echoing from my home.

  27. See, on the strand, watching the waves that sweep Their creamy ripples up the sandy bight, Your child waits, leaping as the wavelets leap, The faery infant of the infinite!

  28. Beneath this pleasant bower Catharine could repose, and watch her companions at their novel employment, or bathe her feet and infirm ancle in the cool streamlet that rippled in tiny wavelets over its stony bed.

  29. Presently the breeze died away as suddenly as it had arisen, but the sky became more and more overcast and the wavelets grew into boulders, white-crested and threatening.

  30. The sea had taken on a yellowish-green tint and angry little wavelets began to chase each other and to dash themselves viciously against the Hawk's sides.

  31. Very soon their shoes and stockings were slung round their necks, and they were running over the hot sand to where the wavelets came rippling to meet their little feet.

  32. The Princess's sweet thoughts were disturbed by the sudden stopping of her craft, which had run aground on the sands just where the tiny wavelets retreated shyly, to venture again and as quickly withdraw.

  33. The wavelets along the side of the boat were noisy; they rattled like paper.

  34. Wavelets splashed along the side and under the bow of the Prebol shanty-boat.

  35. The soft moonbeams shed a bright light on the calm waters, just rippled over by the breeze, the wavelets sparkling like frosted silver.

  36. Then there came a low murmuring strain as of wavelets that ripple against a sandy shore.

  37. The sun glittered in the dewy grass, the crickets sung with a remote voice of wonder, and the air seemed to be half visible, and moved in trembling wavelets on the path before them.

  38. As they rode up across the long, ever-lengthening plain to the speck in the shifting wavelets of the mirage which they knew to be a hut, a strangely characteristic reception awaited them.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wavelets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.