What is "reefs"

Usage examples of "reefs".

It has jungle-clad mountains, azure skies, coral-sand beaches, and reefs teeming with fish.

The area of water between the reefs varied in depth from sixty metres to as little as fifteen.

They circled the reefs like the hands on a clock, the boredom only alleviated by two cans of iced tea and a packet of Camels.

Shleppy had just brought him another iced tea, and they would reach the reefs on the square after next.

The reefs outer walls would have been visited many times, but no one would have been crazy enough to dive the channel itself.

In his haste to avoid the shallow channel between the two reefs he ploughed into their outer wall, and the coral pierced his hull.

A happy ship, I chuckled, and ran Dancer out through the islands, threading a fine course through the clear green waters where the reefs lurked darkly below the surface like malevolent monsters and the islands were fringed with coral sand as dazzling white as a snowdrift, and crowned with dark thick vegetation over which the palm stems curved gracefully, their tops shaking in the feeble remnants of the trade.

It was marked as uninhabited and waterless, and the soundings showed a number of deep channels through the reefs around it.

Dancer was adrift on a treacherous coast, strewn with reefs and shoals.

Charlotte Cotton left the stricken ship with them, and Barlow, with an unlikely combination of good fortune and seamanship, was able to find a passage through the wild sea and murderous reefs into the quieter waters of the inshore channel.

The aircraft circled the island, treating the passengers to a vista of snowy white beaches and water so clear that each detail of the reefs and deeps were whorled and smeared below the surface like some vast surrealistic painting.

The crash boat was now passing between the submerged outer reefs before entering the open inshore waters.

The reefs blew regularly, breathing white foam at each surge of the sea as though a monster lay beneath the surface.

Jos Green, the master, was also continually there, or else consulting the chart in his cabin, for that part of the ocean was comparatively little known, and cruel reefs might exist, not marked down.

I know that there are numerous small islands and reefs, one of which may bring us up if we are not careful.