breakwater
Example Sentences
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Security at the breakwater entrance was "10 times stronger than the previous day", Spanish newspaper El País reported.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He joined some 72,000 people who climbed over fences and swam around a breakwater to get into Ceuta, spreading panic in the tiny territory and exposing the vulnerability of Spain’s border with Morocco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
The project Collins chose to champion in her first television advertisement in May was the Eastport breakwater, a pier in Eastport, Maine, that collapsed in 2014.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
Markets are focused on the rupee as it dwindles toward the psychological breakwater of 100 to the dollar.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
To his right the harbor lay enclosed by its breakwater.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
