coastline

Example Sentences

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It includes a collection of 24 luxury waterfront townhomes set along a largely untouched coastline.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

Kharg experienced major development during Iran's oil boom in the 1960s and 1970s because much of the coastline on the mainland was too shallow to accommodate supertankers.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Sea ice is remaining attached to Alaska's northern coastline for shorter periods each year, based on 27 years of data analyzed by scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

That exit path takes ships past hundreds of miles of Houthi-controlled coastline leading to another chokepoint at Bab al-Mandeb, the strait that links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

Those empires were gone, leaving only a barren coastline for Sciron the bandit.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan