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seaboard

noun

Definition of seaboard

as in seacoast

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Recent Examples of seaboard Here in the United States, El Niños typically result in wetter, warmer winters for the West Coast and a milder hurricane season for the Atlantic seaboard. — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 13 June 2026 In addition to prices keeping many fans away, many USA fans on the eastern seaboard will be thousands of miles away from Team USA’s three group games in Los Angeles (where the Americans play twice) and Seattle. — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 6 June 2026 On France’s Atlantic seaboard, where magnificent beaches have powerful riptides, officials reported a rash of emergencies in the surf, with two drowning deaths on Sunday at popular resorts in the Gironde region in the southwest. — ABC News, 26 May 2026 Summer heat headed to Maryland next week A large dome of high pressure along the eastern seaboard will send temperatures soaring to summer-time levels next week. — Cutter Martin, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seaboard

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Noun

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
There have been multiple sightings of a black bear in some unusual locations on the seacoast of New Hampshire and in southern Maine.

— Neal Riley, CBS News, 9 June 2026

Definition of seacoast

Noun

Yemeni government forces and their allies are relocating south along the Red Sea coast to Dhubab on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, across from Perim Island, according to government military sources.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
Then, flash forward, Marcia was back on our coast after her triumphant five or six years in New York, and suddenly Marcia and I had been shacked up for two years.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 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

Practical Magic 2 reunites Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as Sally and Gillian Owens, sister witches living in a charming seaside cottage in Massachusetts who are now helping rear a new generation into their coven.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026
He’s currently settled in Monolithos, a quiet seaside village in the east—but has historically lived all over Santorini, which has offered him great insight into the rhythm of the island.

— Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of seaside

Noun

Kent beach house Sheeran and Seaborn spent $879,000 on a two-bedroom beach house in Kent, England, in July 2022.

— Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2026
Owners can step out the back door onto a private beach in the backyard and out the front gates to a yacht waiting at a private dock.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of beach

Noun

Yet further down in Dana Point is where the crowds thin out and the gorgeous coastline of rocky cliffs, endless beaches, and bright blue ocean waves come into focus.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2026
Ship traffic through the strait is well below pre-war levels due to the risk of attack if vessels don’t comply with an Iranian vetting regime near its coastline, which is in sharp contrast to the unhindered navigation before the war.

— Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 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

Along its two miles are 17 significant sites; public squares shaded by flame trees; and a pedestrian bridge that reconnects Muharraq with its original shoreline, which has been mostly lost to development.

— CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2026
Traders positioned watchmen along the shoreline, scanning the horizon for incoming vessels.

— Brian Lund, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026

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