beach
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Rode my bike 21 miles on the beach yesterday in 95-degree weather.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
The 43-year-old and her family arrived at the beach at about 11:00, and recalled seeing the victims having a "great time" together.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
“The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove,” a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at UC Irvine’s New Swan Shakespeare Festival, relocates the comedy to a Southern California beach town in the 1950s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
"We were at the beach and they told us to go back to the campsite to grab our things," said the 50-year-old from Belgium.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
There was a wide stretch of beach between the end of the trail and the edge of the lake.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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"Bulldozers on the beaches have already damaged the nesting sites of loggerhead turtles, which are threatened with extinction," Olsi Nika, a marine biologist who heads the NGO EcoAlbania, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
We didn’t have whales, just freshwater fish like alewifes, which stunk up the beaches with annual die-offs that occurred in huge numbers.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Dangerous waves on the beaches were expected courtesy of Tropical Storm Elida, which originated off of southern Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
"It was full of beaches, sand beaches, good fishing, good hunting - the wildlife was beautiful. We had eagles that were always there," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Plus, I read that the beaches in Maryland don’t even have very big waves.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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But I can choose to recognize that some performers, artistic works and brands are simply too big to fail or bury, so they become some version of a beached grey whale’s corpse.
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
At the toe of the bluff, the geotubes stretched out like a beached Leviathan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Vonk and his team ensure the country is ready for extreme scenarios: a drought meaning all inland shipping is beached or a devastating storm surge.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
A minke whale has beached and died at Portstewart Strand in County Londonderry.
From BBC ● May 26, 2025
He lay like a beached whale on the narrow hotel bed and wondered idly if it had indeed been Velutha that Rahel saw.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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A humpback whale that underwent a rescue operation in Germany two weeks ago after beaching itself there has been found dead near a Danish island, officials said Saturday.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
“It doesn’t cut a dent in their population,” he said of the beaching phenomenon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Others, who didn’t want to damage their boats by beaching them, followed suit but ended up trapped in a whirlpool in the middle of bay, he said survivors told him.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
A pod of nearly 100 pilot whales displayed unusual behavior before beaching themselves in Australia.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
She could feel the dream shallowing, like a sleek ship beaching on a shoal.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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