as in sands
the usually sandy or gravelly land bordering a body of water
she loves walking along the beach, looking for shells that the waves cast up
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Recent Examples of beaches
Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Nea Styra is a small coastal town on the southern tip of Evia, Greece's second-largest island, known for its beaches, fishing harbor, and ferry link to the mainland town of Agia Marina in Attica.
—Shane Croucher
john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Families love Split for its walkable Old Town, beaches, and ferry access to islands like Hvar and Korčula, where kids can swim while grandparents explore medieval towns.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
This protected, undeveloped preserve includes 1,200 acres of salt marshes, tidal creeks, dunes, and beaches where turtles nest.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
Below, the cliffs fall away into jagged inlets, sea stacks, and pocket beaches laced with driftwood.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Hotel rates typically dip compared to midsummer, and the beaches feel roomier.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
Do not enter the water when authorities close beaches to swimmers and warn of dangerous rip currents.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Nea Styra is a small coastal town on the southern tip of Evia, Greece's second-largest island, known for its beaches, fishing harbor, and ferry link to the mainland town of Agia Marina in Attica.
—Shane Croucher
john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Families love Split for its walkable Old Town, beaches, and ferry access to islands like Hvar and Korčula, where kids can swim while grandparents explore medieval towns.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
This protected, undeveloped preserve includes 1,200 acres of salt marshes, tidal creeks, dunes, and beaches where turtles nest.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
Below, the cliffs fall away into jagged inlets, sea stacks, and pocket beaches laced with driftwood.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Hotel rates typically dip compared to midsummer, and the beaches feel roomier.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beaches
Noun
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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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Blue Apple Beach, Hart's trailblazing hotel and beach club, sits along the sands of Isla Tierra Bomba, just a twenty-minute boat ride from Cartagena.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This approach grounds technical excellence in solid understanding of human nature and planetary limits.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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On Monday and Tuesday, the Aries Moon grounds you by focusing your attention on finances and values.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Two married sea-explorers are stranded, Gilligan-style, after a storm shipwrecks their craft.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Beaches The coastlines of both countries feature beautiful beaches with white sand and warm, turquoise water.—
Kent Redding,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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“Beaches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beaches. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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