: the shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea
Examples of seacoast in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThe 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 Shikoku presents another Japan of pristine landscapes, pilgrimage temples, fishing villages, rugged seacoasts, forested hills and country kindness.—Roger Sands, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 Mike McCormack lives in Galway, Ireland, on a seacoast facing the Atlantic with rocky, unforgiving cliffs that give way to thin, hardpan soil.—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024 The failure of that withdrawal to secure any sort of lasting peace agreement has left Gaza a kind of orphan, largely cut off from other Palestinians in the West Bank and almost entirely isolated by both Israel and Egypt, which control Gaza’s borders and its seacoast.—Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023 Settle in for the night in a 1870's farmhouse, the Little River Bed & Breakfast, along the Nubanusit Brook.
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See the warm colors of the changing leaves on the country's smallest seacoast.—Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2023 With no seacoast, the foliage starts appearing by the middle of September in the highest elevations and is already peaking before month’s end.—Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023 The months ahead will be busy; Murphy said Hampton Beach alone can receive over 100,000 people per day, and anywhere from 6 million to 8 million people will visit New Hampshire’s seacoast this summer.—Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023 The remaining 20,000 men will aid the artillery detachments in guarding the seacoast and manning the heavy guns of our coast defense.—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
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