along a coast
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A mayor told Greek television that more than 7,000 acres of land was reduced to ashes along a coast, where many Athenians have holiday homes.
From Reuters ● Jul. 18, 2023
A sudden, violent gust of cold, dense air that dives down from mountaintops along a coast.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2022
The brutal storm struck Cuba along a coast studded with resorts that are among the pillars of the island’s economy.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2017
Many of the world’s largest cities sit along a coast, and all of them are, to one degree or another, threatened by rising seas.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2015
Piratical cruising; also, used generally, for beating to windward along a coast, or cruising off and on.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
