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

Australian surfers get their kicks on the combers at Sydney's Neilson Park, zipping through shark nets so ragged that they no longer stop sharks, only surfers.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when he came in earshot he heard the trampling roar of sea on rock, where combers, rising shoreward, thudded down on the sucking ebb—all sheeted with salt foam.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer