twenty-four-foot

Individuals feel compelled to “do something,” anything, when confronting a challenge, as in a soccer match, where the goalie darts to the left or to the right rather than just standing at the midpoint of his twenty-four-foot domain.

Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010

When it came ashore in Mississippi, it caused a twenty-four-foot storm tide, about one-quarter the height of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

It was now 4: 20 p.m., and in less than a minute and a half, the twenty-four-foot storm surge inundated the entire Rockaway Peninsula, lying less than ten feet above sea level, quickly drowning two foolhardy souls who had stayed there to watch the storm.

Landstrike: New York's horrible hurricane scenario 2010

When it came ashore in Mississippi, it caused a twenty-four-foot storm tide, about one-quarter the height of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

When he was just sixteen years old, Loch and his friends built a twenty-four-foot sailboat that they sailed and occasionally raced on Long Island Sound.

OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010

When he was just sixteen years old, Loch and his friends built a twenty-four-foot sailboat that they sailed and occasionally raced on Long Island Sound.

OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010

Free to do anything I want, so long as it could be done alone, on a twenty-four-foot rowboat, in the middle of an ocean.

Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

Free to do anything I want, so long as it could be done alone, on a twenty-four-foot rowboat, in the middle of an ocean.

Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

The yacht was beautiful in the morning sun, all white and chrome, a twenty-four-foot speedboat toylike on davits in the back.

Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

But the twenty-four-foot depth of the Salamis channel would have rendered this a difficult undertaking even with control at sea.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004