Coastal structures countering erosion

Usage examples of breakwaters.

And can't we protect harbors and anchorages from real waves with breakwaters?

So why can't these mages come up with magical breakwaters to protect important places, places like cities and those nodes of theirs and all?

I know how to build these breakwaters because in a sense, I've done it before.

There were watch towers at the extreme ends of the breakwaters, and Teldin imagined that in time of war chains could be drawn across the passage.

A couple hundred yards to his left he could see one of the breakwaters that sheltered the anchorage.

And can’t we protect harbors and anchorages from real waves with breakwaters?

So why can’t these mages come up with magical breakwaters to protect important places, places like cities and those nodes of theirs and all?

I know how to build these breakwaters because in a sense, I’ve done it before.

Engines throbbed, sacrificing precious fuel to take the ship through the narrow channel, around Brant Point and its lighthouse, past the breakwaters and into the open sea.

The boat gathered way, heading for the riding lights of the Yare where she stood out from Nantucket Town's breakwaters.

Then when the Yare and the Bentley were both out beyond the breakwaters, Walker gave her the finger and sailed east.

A whale-catcher was coming in between the breakwaters as well, the long dark shapes of its catch towing behind.

Stubby little paddle-tugs and twenty-oar galleys were towing the big three-master cargo ships out east past the breakwaters.

The transport inched through the narrow channel between the breakwaters.

Embark the men—we can beat off the coast and sail right into the harbor at Port Murchison, they'll never suspect on a night like this, and the fleet will be safe behind the breakwaters.