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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

Hyatt Regency Aruba rounds out its culinary offerings with a juice bar and pizza truck on the beach, a breakfast buffet, an outdoor café, and a pier serving cocktails and light snacks.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026
Mexican authorities were opening shelters and clearing people from beaches, while coastal residents tried to protect businesses from getting swept away.

— MEGAN JANETSKY, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of beach

Noun

The decision to hide every building below the dune line, plant native species along every pathway, and leave the coastline visually intact required more money and engineering than conventional construction would have.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026
Nolo could bring large and damaging waves along portions of the Big Island’s coastline into the weekend.

— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of coastline

Noun

There is a coastal flood advisory for Volusia County, with minor to moderate flooding possible in low-lying lots, parks, docks and roadways near the shoreline and along the Intracoastal.

— Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026
As the train arrived in San Clemente, passengers peered through the train windows to take in the crashing waves, sandy shoreline and beachgoers relaxing underneath umbrellas.

— Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 25 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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