How to Use seaboard in a Sentence

seaboard

noun
  • He lives on the eastern seaboard.
  • Error 0: The white sharks tend to feed along the eastern seaboard.
    Danny Hermosillo, Houston Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Mine came at 18, in southwest France heading to surf the storied seaboard of the Pays Basque.
    Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, 2 Aug. 2019
  • There's a great white shark making his rounds along the Atlantic seaboard.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • In 1957, the group performed at Carnegie Hall, on a bill featuring the best singing groups on the eastern seaboard.
    Mickey Rapkin, GQ, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Of course, blues seldom top five pounds in the Gulf, while 20 pound fish are common on the Eastern seaboard.
    AL.com, 23 July 2017
  • Both areas were hit by heavy snowstorms that moved east to the Atlantic seaboard.
    Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2022
  • But consider a curvy path like I-95, which wends and winds its way along the Eastern seaboard.
    Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2018
  • The seaboard of the cape has a higher concentration of salt than any other place on the East Coast.
    Anthony Haden-Guest, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Max’s franks at a time when the Coney Island brand Nathan’s was taking over the beaches along the Eastern seaboard.
    Adam Reiner, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • American eels live out their lives — which can be more than a decade — just off the eastern seaboard.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2017
  • When China opened its economy in the 1980s, its seaboard reaped the biggest gains.
    The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • Disney considered putting the theme park along the Eastern seaboard in New York state.
    al, 2 Feb. 2020
  • There might be no better place in the world to stuff your face with an ocean’s worth of crustaceans than this blowout on the North Atlantic seaboard.
    Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 4 Jan. 2023
  • And for those who rue the industrialization of the seaboard?
    Elizabeth Royte, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The internet was out across the entire eastern seaboard.
    Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The idea hasn't died out, and many a jet-blower is still in use today, many along the America's eastern seaboard.
    Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2016
  • For many, the lasting image of the bicentennial was the arrival of the Tall Ships in ports up and down the eastern seaboard.
    John Garrison Marks, Smithsonian, 3 July 2018
  • Either way, breezy winds, rough surf and perhaps even some minor coastal flooding is in the cards for the Eastern seaboard.
    Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 15 May 2020
  • Heavy rain, flooding and high winds could batter much of the East Coast this week as the system is forecast to track up or just off the Atlantic seaboard.
    Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2020
  • That was when colonists on the eastern seaboard sought to end their subordination to the British monarchy.
    Daniel Immerwahr, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • Heavy rain, flooding, and high winds could batter much of the East Coast this week as the system is forecast to track up or just off the Atlantic seaboard.
    Wilfredo Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2020
  • Depending in part on zombie Jose, Maria could spin out to sea -- or into the eastern seaboard.
    Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Since first being tagged in Nova Scotia, Ironbound has made his way up and down the eastern seaboard.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2022
  • The Northeastern seaboard of the United States is passionate about their choice of coffee chains!
    Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Arguably one of the crown jewel properties of the Eastern seaboard, the Ocean House is the embodiment of summer, the verb.
    Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 8 Mar. 2019
  • At least 50 people were killed across six states as the remnants of Hurricane Ida brought record rainfall to the Eastern seaboard.
    Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Bow your heads for a moment and give a shout-out to Tex Schramm, who insisted that the new team from Texas should play in a division on the Eastern seaboard.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2020
  • These simple, rustic shacks are the heart and soul of the estate, positioned on the rocky outcrops of the seaboard beneath the whispering Aleppo pines.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Until December, the Saleh-Houthi alliance controlled the northern Yemeni highlands and much of the western seaboard.
    Peter Salisbury, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2018

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