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shoreline

noun

Definition of shoreline

as in shore

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Recent Examples of shoreline Rivera said officials had received reports of the retreating shoreline in Chiriquí and Veraguas and were coordinating surveillance with Panama’s maritime authorities and security agencies. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 Guests must either fly into Nassau and take a 10-minute flight to Fresh Creek Airport, or book one of the property’s Coco seaplanes from Fort Lauderdale with a direct route to its iconic shoreline. — Joey Skladany, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026 Which other creature would have laid its eggs in such a place—which other creature would have had that distant memory of a shoreline buried deep inside? — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026 The rising sea and crashing waves have pushed the shoreline landward, splitting the city's picturesque North Beach. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shoreline

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Noun

The worst of El Niño is still months away, but Southern California’s fragile coastline is already being transformed by record-setting king tides and storm surges.

— Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026
Photos of the port and coastline in the late 1990s show minimal oil storage and loading infrastructure.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of coastline

Noun

Destructive storms like Hurricane Milton in 2024, which made landfall on Florida’s west coast at Siesta Key, can destroy traps, make the water murky and otherwise cause complications for fishermen.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
This protected pine forest on Noirmoutier’s northeast coast is home to multimillion-euro real estate, many of them second homes of Parisians or les Nantais.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of coast

Noun

This included landings on untouched white sand beaches, in the shadow of immense glaciers, with ice floes drifting quietly offshore.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026
Ruby Mint, the women’s beach accessories brand, offers premium beach towels, beach bags, slings, pouches and sarongs.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of beach

Noun

Today, Tropea onions -- which bear protected geographical produce, or IGP, status -- grow on a 60-mile stretch of Calabrian coastland running from the town of Amantea down to the Capo Vaticano peninsula, below Tropea.

— Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
The storm is projected to move slowly up the coastland and could bring torrential rain over several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

— Juan A. Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021

Definition of coastland

Noun

New Skydance content sales chief David Decker was all smiles at the WBD stand, able to look over and see his new Paramount colleagues just along the beachfront.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
Saxon testified that West planned to turn the luxury beachfront home, designed by prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando, into an off-the-grid bunker.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of beachfront

Noun

Though a seashore and park can be different in some respects, two laws dating to the 1970s direct the National Park Service to manage and regulate parks and seashores using the same standards.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Long after all humans have vanished from our planet, some extragalactic visitors might land gently on an empty seashore, throw a bucket into the sea and haul up samples of bacteria.

— Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026

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