tidemark

Example Sentences

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A church has a brown tidemark halfway up its towers.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2016

Miraculously it was left standing when the tsunami swept through, even though the water left a tidemark above head height.

From BBC • May 14, 2011

Mr. Cahoon's countenance—that portion of it above the whisker tidemark, of course—registered horror at the thought.

From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

It may be upon a tiny bay that you have emerged, with the meadows sloping straight to tidemark, and out beyond the wild fowl feeding by the kelp beds.

From Roughing it De Luxe by McCutcheon, John T.

That is shown very well by a simple little tidemark.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John