inland

Example Sentences

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Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and ’60s.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The name suggests altitude, and this whitewashed village of barely 2,000 in the Algarve region is only a half-hour’s drive inland from the beach town of Albufeira and its package-tour mobs but feels centuries away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

These fish are critical for maintaining healthy rivers, supporting major inland fisheries, and providing food and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

Up to 250,000 barrels per day of oil-demand losses are possible in April if inland stocks are low, they said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

Rivers and inlets from the sea provide an easy route for incoming waves, carrying tsunamis much farther inland than they could otherwise travel.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland