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seaboard

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as in seacoast

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Recent Examples of seaboard The city offered a large stadium, a useful location on the eastern seaboard and an engaged venue and franchise owner. — Daniel Gallan, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026 Add a day trip or two to see more of Oregon’s Pacific seaboard. — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026 In the 1700s, when West Africans were shackled and shipped to the South Carolina–Georgia seaboard, some were forced to work in rice paddies, in cotton fields, and on indigo plantations, where the moist climate resembled that of their homelands. — Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026 These competing priorities continue to collide within the PJM regional grid, which covers a vast swath of the Eastern seaboard from North Carolina through Pennsylvania, extending westward all the way into Illinois. — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for seaboard

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Noun

Located on the seacoast of New Hampshire, Hampton Falls is about 45 miles north of Boston.

— Matt Schooley, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Outside, the landscape is a familiar tapestry of yellowing grasses, eucalyptus, oaks, and waves from a west-facing seacoast.

— Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 28 July 2026

Definition of seacoast

Noun

More than one grizzly may have been involved in a bear attack that relatives say left a mother and daughter dead in Bella Coola along the province's central coast, according to the Conservation Officer Service in British Columbia.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
Getting into the hospitality game began modestly in 1988 with a resort hotel in Watamu on the Kenyan coast, followed by Ol Seki in the Mara, before Evans set his sights on Nairobi.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of coast

Noun

Though a seashore and park can be different in some respects, two laws dating to the 1970s direct the National Park Service to manage and regulate parks and seashores using the same standards.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Long after all humans have vanished from our planet, some extragalactic visitors might land gently on an empty seashore, throw a bucket into the sea and haul up samples of bacteria.

— Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of seashore

Noun

In some seaside towns, brave locals take part in a Boxing Day dip—sprinting into the freezing sea to shake off the Christmas excesses, often while raising money for charity.

— Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026
The coastal recession is rendering some seaside regions structurally unsustainable, sending beach towns scrambling to quarry replacement sand.

— Cindy Carcamo, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of seaside

Noun

The post also included photos of a table filled with bouquets gifted to Jenner for her birthday and a shot of her in riding gear on a horse on the beach.

— Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2026
The property has repeatedly refreshed guest rooms, restaurants, and public spaces to stay contemporary while anchoring itself in Cayman’s culture and beach heritage.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2026

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Noun

This year also brings the return of the Dubai Sail Grand Prix, with high-speed catamarans racing off the city’s coastline, while HYROX Dubai will see athletes tackle a grueling combination of running and functional fitness challenges.

— Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
Instead, dirt paths and stalks of grass populated the area, and steel beams lay on rocks along the coastline of Lake Michigan.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of coastline

Noun

Today, Tropea onions -- which bear protected geographical produce, or IGP, status -- grow on a 60-mile stretch of Calabrian coastland running from the town of Amantea down to the Capo Vaticano peninsula, below Tropea.

— Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
The storm is projected to move slowly up the coastland and could bring torrential rain over several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

— Juan A. Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021

Definition of coastland

Noun

On July 22, 1979, a boy between 12 and 16 years old was found on the Imperial Beach shoreline.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
At the bottom of the slope, dozens of protective barriers have been installed as a buffer from waves pounding the shoreline.

— Michele Gile, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026

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