shoreline

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Recent Examples of shoreline Video from the scene shows flames as high as five feet tall overwhelming the boat, sending thick plumes of black smoke over the nearby shoreline. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 5 July 2025 The entire Brickell shoreline along Biscayne Bay has long been designated an archaeological zone by the city because previous finds suggested extensive occupation by prehistoric tribes or groups. Andres Viglucci july 4, Miami Herald, 4 July 2025 Finding the Chris-Craft Much of the shoreline along D.L. Bliss State Park, which is named after a 19th-century timber tycoon, consists of a towering rock face dotted with shrubs and trees. Ethan Wolin updated July 4, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2025 Cornwall travelers experience private wine tastings and coastal boat tours showcasing the region’s idyllic shoreline. Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for shoreline
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Noun
  • With a double harbor set at the tip of a long and sinewy peninsula on a highly strategic coastline, Knidos grew rich from its favorable natural position and from trading wine, olive oil and vast quantities of amphorae.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • The state forecasts eroding coastlines will endanger $18 billion of existing homes and commercial buildings in the coming decades, and San Francisco officials have already decided to close part of one seaside highway rather than defend it.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Nearly all of the island’s 19 square miles are covered in glaciers, punctuated by rugged cliffs, lava fields, and just a few ice-free stretches along the coast.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
  • More than 14 million apartments and houses have a substantial risk of flooding in the next 30 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office — from sea level rise and storm surge along the coasts, to heavy rain and river flooding inland.
    Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Pack up the car with beach supplies and spend the day at the beaches of St. George Island, Carrabelle, Dog Island, or Alligator Point.
    Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 6 July 2025
  • Life threatening rip currents are possible at all beaches in the region through Sunday with breaking wave heights of six feet likely.
    Joel Shannon, USA Today, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • Those observations proved less conclusive than had been hoped, but during the rest of the voyage, Cook was able to map the coastland of New Zealand before sailing west to the southeastern coast of Australia—the first record of Europeans on the continent's Eastern coastline.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
  • 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
Noun
  • Once owned by Estée Lauder heir William Lauder, the adjoining lots span 2.3 acres and feature 360 feet of direct beachfront.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 July 2025
  • The single-family beachfront home covers 1.6 acres and features a swimming pool, 13 bedrooms and 14.5 bathrooms.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • National parks currently charge different rates, and only around 100 sites managed by the National Park Service—which also oversees national monuments, historic sites, seashores, and other public lands—require an admission fee to enter.
    Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 7 July 2025
  • That was Salem, a different town, haunted by witch trials and slaver fortunes, but all the classic New England coastal markers were laid out: early sunsets, family secrets, bizarre architecture, the distinct gloom and glint of the northern eastern seashore.
    Dwyer Murphy June 24, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025

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