A wrong right: the zebra crossing in Dulwich A sign on Frington beach in Essex which should say 'groyne'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news] Reference

The problem was that rather than offer shelter from the wind the groyne was faciltating a sandstorm around the whole area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sand] Reference

Unfortunately, this also reduces sand replenishment on the downdrift side, necessitating the construction of another groyne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beached] Reference

The officer, always thinly clad (both through the state of his wardrobe and his dread of effeminate comfort), settled his bony shoulders against the rough stonework, and his heels upon a groyne, and gave his subordinate a nod, which meant, “Make no fuss, but out with it.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

And look there, Nesta, see that groyne; that very one. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

Michael leant against a groyne to support himself, and looked over the water, seeing nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers] Reference

The dogs entered the sea, off the groyne near Palace Pier, and the man and daughter followed them in.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

In the evening when the wind had dropped a little, they went out on the groyne to see the steamer come in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories] Reference

The UN Environmental Programme has called for a regional groyne covering the entire Gulf of Guinea coastline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwiniana] Reference

With a quick, sudden heave the summer sea, calm and gleaming, runs a little way up the side of the groyne, and again retires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Near London] Reference

There, as if really unable to get up again, he remained crouching under the groyne, looking up in an attitude of painful anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary] Reference

The moment came when the pursuer was hovering about from left to right only a few yards beyond the groyne where the runner lay in hiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary] Reference

Owing to the roughness of the sea, the steamer arrived late, after the sun had set, and it was a long time turning about before it reached the groyne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories] Reference

After two or three ineffectual castings hither and thither it came to a stop, stood upright, with arms raised high, and then darted straight forward towards the groyne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary] Reference

In addition, concrete blocks were made, allowed to remain in moist sand for three months, and were then placed in the form of a groyne in the sea between high and low-water mark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns] Reference

Once now and then a porpoise may be seen sunning himself off a groyne; barely dipping himself, and rolling about at the surface, the water shines like oil as it slips off his back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

Officials of the WRD said two groyne fields, consisting of 10 groynes each, are proposed to be built over a 2-km stretch to retrieve the shrinking shoreline along the Ennore Expressway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

The local community has been engaging with local authorities for many years to have a groyne field put in place to deflect the brunt of the seasonal high seas and help replenish the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

Kids often "play" with the striped shore crabs that skitter about on the rocks of the Casino groyne (breakwater) and divers come up with tales of "humongous" sheep crabs during late winter and spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScubaBoard] Reference

He says WOW has already proven that managed retreat is likely to cost at least three times the cost of a groyne field, much of it at taxpayer cost in replacing public infrastructure and relocating people.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

A Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesman said the man went in first to try and help the animals but it appears he fell and could have hit his head on a groyne - a barrier that stretches out to sea from the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Ocean, and at Degerhamm on the Baltic, where the water is only one-seventh as salt as the North Sea, while the concrete blocks were built up in the form of a breakwater or groyne at Thyboron on the west coast of Jutland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns] Reference

The only options other than the groyne field are 'managed retreat' or 'do nothing', which Newman says is creating fear and uncertainty within the community which is now desperate to hear positive solutions to rebuild confidence in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

When in the evening stillness he heard from his study the voices of his children, preparing their lessons, or when he listened to a song or the organ at the restaurant, or the storm howled in the chimney, suddenly everything would rise up in his memory: what had happened on the groyne, and the early morning with the mist on the mountains, and the steamer coming from Theodosia, and the kisses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories] Reference

You say groin, we say groyne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's take a closer look at that...] Reference

Construction of groyne, perhaps?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Construction Sign from Bali | Engrish.com] Reference

Fleur sat under a groyne at Loring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swan Song] Reference