How to Use coast guard in a Sentence

coast guard

noun

• Halfway back, the coast guard met them and two paramedics jumped aboard.
  — Nick Perry, Twin Cities, 14 Dec. 2019
• All night, the Libyan coast guard’s phones had gone unanswered.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
• The coast guard delivered the survivors to the prisons.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
• The coast guard eventually forced the boat back toward Tunisia and rescued 25 migrants who had jumped into the sea.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
• In recent years, the EU has partnered with Libya’s coast guard and other local groups to stem the dangerous sea crossings.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2019
• After a coast guard rescue operation, two children were taken to the hospital in Lesbos.
  — Alexandra Svokos, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2020
• The Philippine coast guard has taken up the practice of embedding local and international media in its patrols.
  — Marites Dañguilan Vitug, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
• The coast guard monitors maritime traffic and alerts local volunteer and professional aid groups hours or even days before a migrant ship arrives in a Sicilian port.
  — Megan A. Carney, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2020
• Only a deeply problematic initiative, in which the European Union pays the Libyan coast guard to block migrants, has stemmed the exodus.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• In just a decade, China has amassed the world’s largest coast guard fleet.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• The Haitian coast guard rescued more than 40 survivors, the IOM said.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• The coast guard said 16 of the bodies were young African women, while one was a young man.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
• The coast guard was sending divers to help in the rescue efforts.
  — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Tweets from the coast guard featured dramatic video of the fire.
  — oregonlive, 18 June 2022
• The tour boat has since lost contact, according to the coast guard.
  — NBC News, 24 Apr. 2022
• The migrants picked up by the coast guard tended to face grisly fates.
  — Ian Urbina, The Atlantic, 6 May 2021
• Survivors told the coast guard that about 80 people had been on the vessel.
  — Derek Gatopoulos, ajc, 25 Dec. 2021
• The coast guard said the 10 victims — seven men and three women — were adults.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• They were rescued by the coast guard the following day.
  — Jim Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2021
• China has both the world’s largest navy, in terms of sheer ship numbers, as well as the world’s largest coast guard.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 8 July 2024
• But the coast guard caught the Oyang 77, confiscated the catch, and destroyed its nets.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 2 Nov. 2022
• Just off shore, the coast guard discovered the other bodies on the yacht.
  — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2022
• One of them told the coast guard that the ship capsized after an engine stopped and it was hit by a large wave.
  — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• The pilot of the coast guard’s Bombardier Dash-8 plane escaped but the five crew members died, Saito said.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2024
• In the past, the Greek government has used the coast guard to deter migration.
  — Karam Shoumali, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• At least 120 migrants were aboard the vessel, according to the coast guard.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023
• The Navy turned over the vessel, cargo and Yemeni crew to Yemen’s coast guard earlier this week.
  — Isabel Debre, ajc, 23 Jan. 2022
• The transcript shows that the Japan Airlines jet was cleared to land and that the coast guard plan was instructed to hold short of the runway.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
• The local coast guard branch said the fire started in a storage area on the top deck of the Asuka II, one of Japan's largest cruise ships.
  — USA TODAY, 17 June 2020
• The anchor used to hold the floating barrier which was removed by the coast guard.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024