Thesaurus results for SEAWALL

seawall

noun

as in breakwater

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Recent Examples of seawall Community leaders in nearby Asharoken say a seawall built to protect the shoreline, and the only road in and out of the area, has fallen apart. —

John Dias, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026 One commercial jet careened into a seawall while landing in heavy fog; another plunged into Tokyo Bay for unknown reasons; yet another, into Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, also for unknown reasons. —

Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 Scharosch and other waterfront business owners told the City Council they were alarmed by some of the plan’s more creative visions, such as a drawing of a seawall built along the waterfront that does not protect the Clipper Yacht Harbor, Sausalito’s largest marina. —

Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2026 The smaller number of Antarctic Treaty nations might make building a 50-mile underwater seawall to protect a melting glacier a little more feasible to coordinate than geoengineering measures that would require UN buy-in, Elliott writes. —

Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seawall

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The hot spring pools blend into the natural rocky breakwater barriers and offer the opportunity for a warm soak after swimming in the sea.

— Lauren Breedlove, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
Manmade structures like the pier and breakwater at Michigan City and the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor in Portage disrupt the natural flow of sand along the southern shore of Lake Michigan.

— Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026