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seaboard

noun

Definition of seaboard

as in seacoast

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Recent Examples of seaboard 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 But Turner was suggesting that the heart of the nation’s history was not in England or in the American colonies along the eastern seaboard, but on the western frontier. — Literary Hub, 1 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

With France experiencing its driest year ever, a new fire raced through woodlands overnight in the Landes region on the southwest coast.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
And that’s without factoring in what had, until my most recent visit to this bit of the Lincolnshire coast in 2024, been a hidden gem.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of coast

Noun

Located right next to the bustling New England town of Bar Harbor, Acadia has a rugged seashore, great rock climbing opportunities, and more than enough hiking, camping, and paddling to go around.

— Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
The painting shows a castle atop a giant, floating rock, hanging before a partly cloudy sky over a seashore, and has resided at the museum since 1985.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 9 June 2026

Definition of seashore

Noun

Meanwhile, in northern Greece, more than 300 vacationers and residents were evacuated by sea Thursday after a wildfire swept through a pine forest and threatened seaside homes, authorities said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Vogue Daily Newsletter The bag originally made its debut with Mattieu Blazy’s cruise collection shown in Biarritz back in April, a show that celebrated the house’s seaside legacy.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of seaside

Noun

The quake initially triggered fears of a tsunami, and a warning from Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, issuing alerts to stay away from beaches and calls for people to evacuate.

— Jason Volack, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
The private beach lacks shade, so bring an umbrella and extra sunscreen in the summer.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of beach

Noun

Analysts say the Houthis appear to be mobilizing for an offensive that would aim to take more of the Red Sea coastline.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
Scientists have recorded 27 million metric tons of self-sustaining sargassum, a seaweed, along the coastlines of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, according to this recent Times article.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 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

Araghchi referred to the more limited and temporary arrangement for Hormuz being negotiated with Oman, which borders its southern shoreline.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
More than a week later, another beaver bit a 19-year-old man fishing from the park’s shoreline on Wednesday.

— Maia Nehme, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2026

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