shoreline

Example Sentences

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Dotting the shoreline is a bleak expanse of detritus: timeworn pumps, tottering derricks, wayward cranes and aging pipelines.

From Los Angeles Times

On the sloping shoreline of the Greek Aegean island of Milos, a vast construction site has left a gaping wound into the island's trademark volcanic rock.

From Barron's

The three men followed the shoreline, past a cove where an old fishing pier jutted into the water.

From Literature

Thomas Quarry I sits within the raised coastal formations of the Rabat-Casablanca littoral, an area internationally recognized for its remarkably complete record of Plio-Pleistocene shorelines, dunes, and cave systems.

From Science Daily

Preserved shorelines, layered sediments, and mineral deposits may all reflect stable lakes that endured despite a cold climate.

From Science Daily