These mountains separate the area from the ocean.

Alexandra lived in a building which was separated from the ocean by only the seawalk and a rocky beach.

Mayumba town is nestled among three small hills separating the lagoon from the ocean.

Barachois is a coastal lagoon separated from the ocean by a sand bar.

The town is separated from the open ocean by a shallow, eastward-facing bay.

This lake of ours, at its western end, is separated from the ocean by only a low rock barrier.

Behind the beach are long sandy dunes that separate various lakes and lagoons from the ocean.

Her home, separated from the ocean by a big dune, had been flooded only once, in 1992.

Separating the marina from the ocean is the Balboa Peninsula.

Soligen pointed to an area above the "waist," a wide plain with a range of hills that separated it from the ocean.