shorelines

plural of shoreline

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shorelines
Noun
  • Beaches The coastlines of both countries feature beautiful beaches with white sand and warm, turquoise water.
    Kent Redding, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Three locations in the Point Loma-Ocean Beach area are set for projects in the city of San Diego’s new Coastal Resilience Master Plan to protect beaches and coastlines.
    Robert Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Described as semi-autobiographical, the play follows a year in the life of college student Josh (Ben Hirschhorn), whose alcoholism has led him from theater school in New York to the shores of a reservoir in his Colorado hometown.
    Chad Jones, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Now, the decimation of the environment and indigenous people across the world, from the palm oil plantations of Indonesia to the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has reached the shores of Great Nicobar.
    M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For the past 40 years, thousands of people have fanned out across beaches, lakes, streams and parks every September for California’s Coastal Cleanup Day — the state’s largest annual volunteer event.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, Florida's fossil record stretches back more than 50 million years, with shark teeth among the most common finds in beaches, creek beds and riverbeds.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Yet visitors can still find secluded stretches and coves of golden sands and craggy coastal formations, some of the best tidepools anywhere and about 2,400 acres of beach and backcountry that make Crystal Cove a favorite of naturalists.
    Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The sports star shared another full-length shot of the couple — who currently reside in Oslo — with their arms around each other on the same white sands, while a third closer-up image showed the couple smiling and rubbing noses.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Shorelines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shorelines. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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