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seacoast

noun

Definition of seacoast

as in seaboard

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Recent Examples of seacoast North Korea has opened a splashy resort on its eastern seacoast called Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area, featuring some 400 buildings. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 July 2025 Located on the seacoast of Northern Ireland, this UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of seven natural wonders of the United Kingdom is otherworldly. — Erica Zazo, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025 The Odesa port and two others on the nearby seacoast have been a particular target of Russian wrath for the last eight months, since Ukraine managed to open a coast-hugging 350-mile Black Sea grain corridor to the Bosporus strait. — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024 There are unique Airbnbs abound but for a unique stay on the seacoast, check out Great Island Inn. — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2022 See All Example Sentences for seacoast

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Noun

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

Definition of seaboard

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

Should cabin fever somehow strike, the hotel can arrange adventures further afield, from whale-watching and boat trips along the Costa Del Sol coast to private hikes through the Andalusian mountains and even cheesemaking at a local goat farm.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
Long, planetary waves push the warm water to our coast and also raise the sea level, according to Clarissa Anderson, director of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of coast

Noun

Nothing terribly exciting is happening inside this three-bedroom, but there’s lots of light and a respectable amount of space, and the beach is just a few minutes away.

— Nora Deligter, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, a swell from Hurricane Rachel is expected to bring elevated surf of 5 to 6 feet to area beaches on Tuesday through Thursday, according to the weather service forecast.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of beach

Noun

The state’s coastlines have been inundated with high surf for much of the summer, leading to severe erosion at some of the state’s most popular beaches.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
But the wild and remote coastline’s dramatic transformation had long been expected, according to NPS.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of coastline

Noun

Guests must either fly into Nassau and take a 10-minute flight to Fresh Creek Airport, or book one of the property’s Coco seaplanes from Fort Lauderdale with a direct route to its iconic shoreline.

— Joey Skladany, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
Which other creature would have laid its eggs in such a place—which other creature would have had that distant memory of a shoreline buried deep inside?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of shoreline

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

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