What is "mangroves"

Usage examples of "mangroves".

Day after day, a gray and brooding wind nags at the mangroves, hurrying the unruly tides that hunt through the broken islands and twist far back into the creeks, leaving behind brown spume and matted salt grass, driftwood.

From the wall of mangroves far off down the bay, the drum of the boat engine comes and goes, then comes again, a little louder.

Give me something to think about all that long evening when I and Mister Watson were setting there alone by lamplight, yeller shadows flickering, with that old black river licking through them empty mangroves, pouring away into the Gulf of Mexico.

We abandoned our old home for the skiff, let the wash carry us well up in the black mangroves, lashed the boat tight, and prayed to the Lord Almighty for deliverance.

Well, them Thompsons rode the storm out in a skiff tied up into the mangroves, same as us.

Josie Jenkins rode out that hurricane on Pavilion Key, how her brother Tant pushed her up into the mangroves with her five-month baby boy, and how that child was stripped away when a series of big seas washed over, and found again by some dark miracle after the seas went down.

They loved to plow up the mangroves and bulldoze the gnarled, disorderly native vegetation and replace them with block houses closed to the breeze and decorative shrubs that belonged somewhere else.

Fontaine lurched through the mangroves to the spot where he thought he had parked the pickup.

A school of mullet ran perfunctorily toward some mangroves to escape its path and then, sensing no threat, darted back to play in the mottled shadows around the dock.

Everywhere else mangrove roots grew, a thick and rather hideous tangle of roots extending a couple of feet out of the water to join the naked grotesque trunks of the mangroves themselves.

Long Tom put up somewhat of a fight when men came piling out of the mangroves and runt palmetto growth.

The prisoners had been taken back into the mangroves, forced to sit on the damp swamp muck, and each of them tied by one wrist to a long rope.

When his lungs began to torture him for air, he turned to the right, into the dark moon shadow of the mangroves which overhung the creek.

But when he saw how thickly the mangroves were matted, and what a terrible tangle it would be to traverse, he slid back into the water, and beneath it.

There were no more mangroves, for the mangroves grew only along the coast.