Definition of coastline
1 : a line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake
2 : the outline of a coast
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Examples of coastline in a Sentence
The plane flew along the eastern coastline.
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Caroline, the only Eastern Shore county without any coastline on the Chesapeake, ranks first in Maryland in total value of agricultural products sold and is the state’s leading producer of wheat.
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Olive trees, however, take naturally to the steep Ligurian coastline.
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At the peak of its power in Libya, the Islamic State group controlled a 160-kilometer (100-mile) stretch of Libyan coastline and boasted between 2,000 and 5,000 fighters, many of them from Egypt and Tunisia.
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His father, who stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War II, was murdered by a hitchhiker when Allman was 2 and the family moved to Daytona Beach on Florida’s Atlantic coastline.
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The team is going to speedboat up the coastline of New Brunswick (Speedboatin’
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In one shot from Friday, the two stood on a bluff on the Sicilian coastline, overlooking the vastness of the Mediterranean Sea and surrounded by flowers.
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BIG SUR, Calif. -- New drone video of a massive landslide south of Big Sur shows just how drastically Highway 1 and the California coastline has been damaged by a million tons of rock and dirt, CBS Los Angeles reports.
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The concept of an American paradise—one that boasts lush jungles, tropical coastlines and volcanic terrain—is rarely considered.
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1856
First Known Use of coastline
1856
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playDefinition of coastline for English Language Learners
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: the land along the edge of a coast
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