Examples of seaboard in a Sentence
He lives on the eastern seaboard.
Recent Examples on the Web
That's in part because Baltimore's port is about a day further inland than many others on the Eastern seaboard, putting it closer to points in the Midwest.
—
Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
Any trip by train or highway along the heavily populated Mid-Atlantic seaboard involves myriad long bridges and tunnels to cross the bays, estuaries and wide rivers that stretch deep into the coastal plains.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
Ensuing search operations combed through some of the deepest ocean floors in the inhospitable southern Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles off Australia’s western seaboard, and found no trace of the main fuselage or any passengers and crew.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
About 630,000 of the king’s subjects then lived in the twelve English colonies along the eastern seaboard — the 13th, Georgia, was first settled in 1733 — and half of those lived in either Massachusetts, Virginia, or Maryland.
—The Editors, National Review, 19 Feb. 2024
Perhaps McCullough’s role will diminish moving forward if calm returns to the Atlantic seaboard.
—Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2023
Ticks are moving up the eastern seaboard, already fully established in southern Massachusetts and getting into Maine.
—Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2023
Over the course of this year, there have been a number of other political killings, including two candidates for the February local elections, as well as the mayor of Manta and a councilor in Durán, both on the Pacific seaboard.
—Ivan Briscoe and Glaeldys González, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2023
The record heat then spread to the eastern seaboard, bringing temperatures in the 80s to Delaware and Washington and stretching south to Northern Florida.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2023
Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
Any trip by train or highway along the heavily populated Mid-Atlantic seaboard involves myriad long bridges and tunnels to cross the bays, estuaries and wide rivers that stretch deep into the coastal plains.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
Ensuing search operations combed through some of the deepest ocean floors in the inhospitable southern Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles off Australia’s western seaboard, and found no trace of the main fuselage or any passengers and crew.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
About 630,000 of the king’s subjects then lived in the twelve English colonies along the eastern seaboard — the 13th, Georgia, was first settled in 1733 — and half of those lived in either Massachusetts, Virginia, or Maryland.
—The Editors, National Review, 19 Feb. 2024
Perhaps McCullough’s role will diminish moving forward if calm returns to the Atlantic seaboard.
—Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2023
Ticks are moving up the eastern seaboard, already fully established in southern Massachusetts and getting into Maine.
—Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2023
Over the course of this year, there have been a number of other political killings, including two candidates for the February local elections, as well as the mayor of Manta and a councilor in Durán, both on the Pacific seaboard.
—Ivan Briscoe and Glaeldys González, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2023
The record heat then spread to the eastern seaboard, bringing temperatures in the 80s to Delaware and Washington and stretching south to Northern Florida.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2023
These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'seaboard.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Dictionary Entries Near seaboard
Cite this Entry
“Seaboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seaboard. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
Copy CitationKids Definition
seaboard
noun
sea·board
ˈsē-ˌbō(ə)rd 
-ˌbȯ(ə)rd
: seacoast
also
: the country bordering a seacoast
seaboard
adjective
Love words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share