: a wall or embankment to protect the shore from erosion or to act as a breakwater
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As an alternative to seawalls, Surfrider advocates better planning and management, Cook said.—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025 The Tidal Basin: The $113 million project — the most expensive NPS has ever designed — will replace 6,800 feet of sinking seawalls along the Tidal Basin and the Potomac and will add larger walkways.—Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025 Iguanas also dig tunnels that erode seawalls, Arahill said.—Peter Burke, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2025 Vic, who lost his family a week earlier when the Riddler (Paul Dano) bombed Gotham City’s seawall, attempts to explain himself, but his stutter interferes.—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for seawall
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