littoral
Example Sentences
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A relatively new missile-toting unit of Marines, based on Okinawa, is designed to fight in a contested littoral battlespace by dispersing, concealing themselves, and taking out enemy ships and aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
The Houthis command the Tihamah coastal plain, the eastern littoral of the Red Sea.
From Salon • Jul. 14, 2024
The new discoveries will increase the ecological importance of the Mallorca channel seamounts and the littoral caves, providing compelling arguments for the Spanish government to emphasize the need for protection measures.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024
The new JL-3 will have a range of 5,400 nautical miles and be able to target portions of the continental United States from Chinese littoral waters.
From Washington Times • Nov. 8, 2023
The Peruvian littoral is an agronomical no-go zone: barren, cloudy, almost devoid of rain, seismically and climatically unstable.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
