seaboard

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Recent Examples of seaboard On March 22 Samoset returned again, this time with Squanto, the only other Native American on the Eastern seaboard who spoke English. Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026 Orlando led the way among Florida airports amid the more than 6,000 flights canceled nationwide as heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions slam the northeastern seaboard. Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2026 Southwestern states, the Gulf Coast, and much of the eastern seaboard are expected to be drier than average. Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026 The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for much of the Northeast on Sunday, just one day after a previous storm brought some snow to the parts of the eastern seaboard. Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seaboard
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Noun
  • Filming pine trees on Maine’s seacoast and palmettos off Charleston left us with stark reminders of North America’s botanical diversity as well as its vastness.
    Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • North Korea has opened a splashy resort on its eastern seacoast called Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area, featuring some 400 buildings.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Young Alfred Tennyson grew up in a similarly provincial bit of England, tucked away in his father’s vicarage on a remote part of the east coast of England in a village of fewer than a hundred souls.
    Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The other expedition in December and January captured photos of other areas along the Argentine coast.
    K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Despite this drop in visitors, 26 of the 433 sites in the NPS system—which includes national parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, recreation areas, preserves, and seashores—broke all-time records for visitation.
    Owen Clarke, Outside, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Yet, violence on the pickleball courts happened at a genteel country club in a gated community in Port Orange, Florida, a seashore community of some 66,000 residents along the Atlantic Ocean, just south of the spring break mecca, Daytona Beach.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The prominent Arab event is held in a seaside resort near the tourist town of Hurghada, 250 miles south of Cairo.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026
  • After news of a major heist at a $20 million seaside Massachusetts mansion, one former FBI investigator says details provided by the home's owner could point to an inside job.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Rough seas and dangerous rip currents led to a high volume of beach rescues on Friday, with 29 people pulled from the water in Fort Lauderdale and another nine in Pompano Beach.
    Ted Scouten, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • But ever since, the family has alleged individuals have encroached on their beach, forcing them to put up no trespassing signs and hire private security, according to a supplemental complaint filed by Brian against the Walton County Sheriff’s Office last year.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • By Tuesday and Wednesday, highs could be near or possibly exceed 80 degrees away from the coastline.
    Matthew Villafane, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Sand for the beaches is a side benefit of the dredging, although there’s never enough to go more than about one-third of the way down the city’s 3-mile coastline.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
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
  • Reparations have been a periodic topic of debate since the waning days of the Civil War, when Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman promised 40 acres and a mule to formerly enslaved families in a swath of confiscated Southern coastland.
    Lee Hawkins and Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • Those threats include boat strikes from propellers slicing through shells, being caught in fishing nets, shoreline development, tree removal reducing natural cover, de-icing bubblers that give otters access to hibernating turtles, and climate change.
    Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Even experienced swimmers can be pulled into deeper water or slammed against the seabed when a strong wave collapses suddenly near the shoreline.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026

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