inland

Example Sentences

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The Baltic Sea offers beach getaways for those who would rather not swelter in Spain or inland.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

Iraq can send some of its northern crude through a pipeline to Turkey, but most of the country’s oil production comes from its southern fields, which have no inland connection to the pipeline.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

Larger than 22,000 football fields, it handles transit each year of around 267 million tonnes of goods and is used by around 20,000 seagoing vessels and 50,000 inland vessels, according to its website.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

He bought his summer cottage “House of Cards” about 17 years ago for $600,000 and since then spent roughly the same amount to move it 75 feet inland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

There were no road signs, not one; they’d all been taken down or blacked over to confuse the enemy in the event Operation Sea Lion was successful and the German army came swarming inland.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein