as in coast
the land adjacent to a body of water
The state has mainly rocky coastline and few beaches. The plane flew along the eastern coastline.
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Recent Examples of coastline
That's about 2,000 miles of coastline covered in dot after dot, marking landfall after landfall, with few breaks.
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
The Ambush The heartland for Syria’s Alawite minority lies along a 110-mile stretch of mountainous coastline tucked between Lebanon and Turkey.
—Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
As waves break on the coastline, saltwater is sprayed into the air as particles.
—Gerald Frankel, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
Throughout the 26 miles of coastline, loggerhead sea turtles come ashore to nest and lay eggs from May through August.
—Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
The Ambush The heartland for Syria’s Alawite minority lies along a 110-mile stretch of mountainous coastline tucked between Lebanon and Turkey.
—Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
As waves break on the coastline, saltwater is sprayed into the air as particles.
—Gerald Frankel, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
Throughout the 26 miles of coastline, loggerhead sea turtles come ashore to nest and lay eggs from May through August.
—Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for coastline
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coastline
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American military veteran hijacks plane in Belize, officials say The airplane, which had only 14 passengers on board, had been due to fly the short route from Corozal near the Mexican border to San Pedro, a popular tourist destination off the coast.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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It’s set in 1902, in a Gullah community on an island off the coast of Georgia, where a large extended family is preparing to move to the North.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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Mallorca may be known for its nightlife, its glorious beaches and lately, unfortunately, some of its tourism growing pains.—
Ann Abel,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The stay in the beach house was supposed to clear their heads, and Joe wasn’t supposed to show up.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Only after the worst mass extinction of all time, as Earth’s ecosystems struggled to recover from intense global warming spurred by volcanoes, did reptiles began to live by the shoreline and become ever more at home in the water.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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However, rising water levels are expected to carry debris that was once on the shoreline out into open waters.—
Asher Redd,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Coastline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coastline. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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