shoreline

Example Sentences

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His daughter, Gina, said on Monday she had been "blown away" to see Bluebird running there again as thousands of spectators took to the shoreline.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Quakes of that magnitude can even pose a risk of tsunami-like waves on the lake itself, with possible heights of more than 30 feet — capable of inundating many areas near the shoreline.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

After the last Ice Age, rising seas and coastal erosion carved and exposed the towering structures along the shoreline.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

Seizing Kharg Island and the islands near the mainland would require an amphibious landing on a contested shoreline, among “the hardest operations” a military can attempt, and one that Iran is almost certainly prepared for.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

And that was when Turner saw them: great mounds of water moving between him and the shoreline, following the coast.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt