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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

El Niño years are also associated with coastal flooding on the Eastern seaboard and the West Coast.

— Ava Berger, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026
In addition to above-average precipitation projected for the West Coast and across the southern states, precipitation along the eastern seaboard is also expected to be above average.

— Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of seaboard

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

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

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

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

Definition of beach

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

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

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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