coastline
Example Sentences
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Crucially, they control the Yemen's Red Sea coastline.
From BBC
The boat was eventually stopped 53 nautical miles from Ierapetra, a city on Crete's southern coastline.
From BBC
The artist’s summer stays on the Northern French coastline began in 1885 in Grandcamp, a humble fishing village distinguished only by its vacant beachfront and dramatic cliffs rising to the east.
Where dinosaur tracks coexist beside spooky rows of barracks left from a 16th-century monastery, there’s a spectacular view of coastline all the way back to the white spires of Lisbon.
Kharg experienced major development during Iran's oil boom in the 1960s and 1970s because much of the coastline on the mainland was too shallow to accommodate supertankers.
From Barron's
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