Choice of Words: Embrace suggests that the shore was holding the waves safely.
Alternative Expressions
Waves crashed against the shore's rocky embrace.
Meaning: This means that the waves are hitting the shore with a lot of force, and the shore is made of rocks. The rocks are stopping the waves from going any further.
Choice of Words:Waves are large bodies of water that move across the ocean or a lake. Crashed means to hit something with force. Against means to be opposite or facing something. Shore is the land along the edge of a body of water. Rocky means full of rocks. Embrace means to hold or hug something. In this sentence, the waves are hitting the shore with force, and the shore is made of rocks. The rocks are holding the waves back, like a hug.
The waves pounded the shore's rocky exterior.
Meaning: This means that the waves are hitting the shore with a lot of force, and the shore is not giving way.
Choice of Words:Pounded means to hit something repeatedly with force. Exterior means the outside of something. In this sentence, the waves are hitting the outside of the shore with force.
The relentless waves battered the shore's unyielding cliffs.
Meaning: This means that the waves are hitting the cliffs with a lot of force, but the cliffs are not being damaged or destroyed.
Choice of Words:Relentless means something that never gives up or stops. Battered means to hit something repeatedly with force. Unyielding means something that does not give way or change. Cliffs are high, steep faces of rock. In this sentence, the waves are hitting the cliffs with force, but the cliffs are not giving way.