shoreline

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Recent Examples of shoreline On Friday, May 9, the celebrity chef, 65, shared a throwback shot of herself smiling against a scenic backdrop of Cape Cod’s shoreline on a sunny day in 2009. Erin Clements, People.com, 9 May 2025 Year after year Ashley Spivey has watched the shoreline erode along the Pamunkey Indian Reservation. Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 8 May 2025 Construction staging areas will also restrict some shoreline and parking space. Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025 The boat anchors directly on the shoreline, where guests will disembark on the sand for a glorious beach day. Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for shoreline
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Noun
  • Russia, a dominant military force in the Arctic with an expansive Arctic Ocean coastline, is seen by observers and US intelligence as interested in nearby naval routes, which form a key strategic chokepoint stretching from Greenland toward the United Kingdom.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 6 May 2025
  • West Side On a map, Antigua vaguely resembles an oblong circle, its jagged coastline interrupted by bays, peninsulas, and tiny inlets that hide each of its 365 beaches.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • De Hoop Nature Reserve is located on the southwestern coast of South Africa, about a 150-mile drive southeast from Cape Town.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
  • About five second of Googling shows that Levin, about this time last year, responded to a boat landing in Carlsbad by calling for a vote on legislation to extend the enforcement zone off the coast.
    Sal Rodriguez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • On Copacabana Beach, Lady Gaga put on a sensational show on par with the one Madonna did on the same beach in May 2024.
    Mario Manca, Glamour, 4 May 2025
  • Re: Plan to replace basketball courts with pickleball on Fort Lauderdale beach sparks backlash Thank you for this article by Susannah Bryan.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Those observations proved less conclusive than had been hoped, but during the rest of the voyage, Cook was able to map the coastland of New Zealand before sailing west to the southeastern coast of Australia—the first record of Europeans on the continent's Eastern coastline.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
  • 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
Noun
  • There’s an 1,800 square foot spa, and the hotel itself—an Art Deco gem—sits on the largest stretch of beachfront in Miami.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The Alabama Gulf Coast has more than 30 miles of beachfront, and Gulf State Park has 3.5 miles of it reserved for relaxation and fishing.
    Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The new Trump budget proposal would reduce money for the nation's national parks, monuments, historic sites, seashores and trails by nearly 25%.
    Taylor Wilson, USA Today, 5 May 2025
  • The general findings are that stainless steel canisters could pit or crack when stored near a seashore.
    Gerald Frankel, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Shoreline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoreline. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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