shoreline

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Recent Examples of shoreline At the time, scientists were unable to ascertain how the balls of debris ended up in the waters around the Australian shoreline. Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025 But to the north, at Martin’s property, which sits on a quiet piece of Brickell Avenue between the causeway and Vizcaya Museum and Gardens that’s lined with multi-million-dollar estates, the bluff runs just above the Biscayne Bay shoreline. Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025 The hike up to the cross is difficult and swampy, with Tompkins and her team stepping between tufts of grass, while the glassy water along the shoreline laps quietly at the stony beach below. John Bartlett, NPR, 12 Jan. 2025 And a stabilized shoreline gives structure for plant life like mangroves and marsh grass to grow. Kathryn Varn, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for shoreline 
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Noun
  • Damage to beachfront homes by the Palisades Fire is visible along the coastline, Jan. 15, 2025, in Malibu, Calif.
    CBS News, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2025
  • In Southern California, the town of Redondo Beach is home to a popular walkway known as the Esplanade, which stretches along the coastline and attracts large numbers of visitors each year.
    Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Less than two weeks later, Hurricane Milton made landfall on the west coast of Florida, causing some $25 billion in economic losses.
    CBS News, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • See it Researchers off the coast of western Australia observed a new behavior in whale sharks, the largest fish in the world, during a research expedition.
    Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The choice of the 305 was obvious — sunshine, beaches, luxury — but also the ability to build out a compound in Medley that includes everything from the arena itself to practice courts to workout facilities to childcare.
    C. Isaiah Smalls II, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Maritime forests, beaches, historic sites, and abundant wildlife are all within easy reach thanks to more than 20 miles of paved bike paths on the Jekyll Island Trail System.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Those observations proved less conclusive than had been hoped, but during the rest of the voyage, Cook was able to map the coastland of New Zealand before sailing west to the southeastern coast of Australia—the first record of Europeans on the continent's Eastern coastline.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Today, Tropea onions -- which bear protected geographical produce, or IGP, status -- grow on a 60-mile stretch of Calabrian coastland running from the town of Amantea down to the Capo Vaticano peninsula, below Tropea.
    Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • But, as great as all that is, the private staircase that zigzags down the cliff to Big Dume’s sandy beachfront is the icing on this cake.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Certain areas in the campgrounds are prone to storm impact, including the beachfront and the creek.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Out of the 85 miles, half of it is a protected seashore.
    Michelle Baran, AFAR Media, 7 Jan. 2025
  • But anyone who chooses to live in the fire plain — as with a flood plain or seashore — must accept a certain small risk of, well, nature being natural.
    Josh Schlossberg, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2024

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“Shoreline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoreline. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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