as in coasts
the land adjacent to a body of water
The state has mainly rocky coastline and few beaches. The plane flew along the eastern coastline.
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Recent Examples of coastlines
Beaches The coastlines of both countries feature beautiful beaches with white sand and warm, turquoise water.
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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
All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
As advertised, the work looks at coastlines and shorelines and the way the planet is simultaneously eroding due to climate change and restoring itself through its own natural evolution.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
India has some pretty successful efforts to protect the olive ridley sea turtle, a vulnerable species which nests on the country's long coastlines.
—Diaa Hadid, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
Enjoyment at the waterfront America’s coastlines, shorelines, lakes and rivers are often prime destinations for vacationers, but access to them can be limited by private development, and parking and admission fees can be costly.
—Jeffrey C. Hallo, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Watch Hill’s Serene Beaches The village is surrounded on three sides by water, and each of those coastlines offers a different experience.
—Julie Tremaine, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The aftershocks highlighted the vulnerability of global coastlines in the Pacific Ring of Fire which is marked by intense tectonic activity.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
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
All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
As advertised, the work looks at coastlines and shorelines and the way the planet is simultaneously eroding due to climate change and restoring itself through its own natural evolution.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
India has some pretty successful efforts to protect the olive ridley sea turtle, a vulnerable species which nests on the country's long coastlines.
—Diaa Hadid, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
Enjoyment at the waterfront America’s coastlines, shorelines, lakes and rivers are often prime destinations for vacationers, but access to them can be limited by private development, and parking and admission fees can be costly.
—Jeffrey C. Hallo, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Watch Hill’s Serene Beaches The village is surrounded on three sides by water, and each of those coastlines offers a different experience.
—Julie Tremaine, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The aftershocks highlighted the vulnerability of global coastlines in the Pacific Ring of Fire which is marked by intense tectonic activity.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coastlines
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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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Do not enter the water when authorities close beaches to swimmers and warn of dangerous rip currents.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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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
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“Coastlines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coastlines. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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