shorings

plural of shoring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shorings
Noun
  • More than 500 miles of coastline line the city’s shores, and when the temperatures creep up, many city dwellers head to the public beaches that line the coast.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 June 2026
  • But there is a reason millions want to live here, and many risk their lives to try to reach our shores.
    Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • With each encounter, the mystery of Molineux’s whereabouts mounts, though the sense of foreboding is cut by the comedy of our hero’s haplessness.
    John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • Tapia believes the Cuban government is attempting to signal a willingness to negotiate with the United States as economic pressure mounts.
    Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 13 June 2026
Noun
  • On the other were calls to shift resources away from policing and toward social supports and services.
    Diane Goldstein, Mercury News, 19 June 2026
  • Build office- and home-based supports that make systems flexible enough to let their strengths show.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • That’s likely to change in Season 3, now that both factions have added key reinforcements.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • The starting pitcher injuries are getting to a point where the Cubs might be white-knuckling survival until the trade deadline at the beginning of August to acquire external reinforcements.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • Our thriving food capital draws diners out with sunlit farmers markets, midnight taco stands, multigenerational kebab shops and serene sushi dens.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
  • The vast majority of Wilkins’ X feed is devoted to taking MAGA positions, and not to promoting her musical endeavors, as an activist taking stands for the NRA and other organizations.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Given all the other economic and geopolitical uncertainty in the world, this is perhaps not the best time to assume rapid and significant change in the underpinnings of how the central bank has worked has no risk.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • Moving on to the underpinnings.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • RVing is not cheap, but renting can be comparable to the cost of road tripping with hotel stays and dining out.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • Officials have also proposed increasing the tax on hotel stays and short-term rentals in unincorporated areas of the county to boost revenue.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • But aside from gifting Zane with spurs, Beth’s more or less a spectator through all of the Jackson family drama.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Yeezy works into the evening, hacking at jagged spurs of plastic and tapping away with a special brass gunsmith’s hammer.
    Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
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“Shorings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shorings. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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