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beach

[beech] / bitʃ /


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A beach hazard statement is in effect through Wednesday afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

A man and a woman have died after getting into trouble in the sea off a popular beach.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Forecasters are urging beachgoers to check the surf forecast before choosing a beach, and to swim near a lifeguard.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

With the scrape Debbie and Judith find themselves in, a beach holiday is out of the question.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

I take Ikaika and Pua down to a little beach where we can sit on the soft sand.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Now a Category 4 hurricane and moving northwest with sustained winds of about 155 mph, Genevieve is expected to generate up to 11-foot swells by Wednesday afternoon along beaches that face south and southwest.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

The nomination included the five D-Day beaches known by their code names: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

"Other people have been sleeping in schools and warehouses and the beaches have had people just waiting for the go ahead," Morrison added.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

On Friday, authorities ordered the evacuation of 40,000 of people from Cap Ferret, a peninsula in southwestern France that draws wealthy vacationers to its white sand beaches.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Up ahead was another blotch of land—a saddle-shaped island with forested hills and white beaches and green meadows—just like I’d seen in my dreams.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

What’s more depressing is that a research biologist interviewed by KING-TV, Seattle’s NBC affiliate, stated that the beached whales people have encountered likely represent only a quarter to a fifth of the total death toll.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

The image of the beached horse first lodged in Nolan’s mind over 20 years ago when he was in the running to direct a movie based on another Homeric epic, “The Iliad.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Vonk and his team ensure the country is ready for extreme scenarios: a drought meaning all inland shipping is beached or a devastating storm surge.

From Barron's Nov. 7, 2025

A minke whale has beached and died at Portstewart Strand in County Londonderry.

From BBC May 26, 2025

But Jeanne is coughing and choking and Jacob is gasping like a beached fish and William, great William, is sinking.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

A humpback whale that underwent a rescue operation in Germany two weeks ago after beaching itself there has been found dead near a Danish island, officials said Saturday.

From Barron's May 16, 2026

A spokesperson from the National Weather Service in Monterey attributed high tides for beaching the bomb.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 2, 2024

A pod of nearly 100 pilot whales displayed unusual behavior before beaching themselves in Australia.

From New York Times Jul. 28, 2023

Once the whales began beaching themselves on the shore, wildlife authorities launched an emergency response effort in a bid to save them.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2023

Carefully, we inched the Miss Amanda around the sandbar without beaching her until we were directly above the deep water.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings




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