coastline

Example Sentences

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It includes a collection of 24 luxury waterfront townhomes set along a largely untouched coastline.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

The boat was eventually stopped 53 nautical miles from Ierapetra, a city on Crete's southern coastline.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Sea ice is remaining attached to Alaska's northern coastline for shorter periods each year, based on 27 years of data analyzed by scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

That exit path takes ships past hundreds of miles of Houthi-controlled coastline leading to another chokepoint at Bab al-Mandeb, the strait that links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

All up and down the coastline, female turtles come out of the ocean and paddle their way across the sand, dig a hole, and lay eggs—about a hundred at a time.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg