littoral
Example Sentences
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The Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vehicle was described as “an unmanned, diesel-powered surface craft” designed to be launched from a littoral combat ship.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Thomas Quarry I sits within the raised coastal formations of the Rabat-Casablanca littoral, an area internationally recognized for its remarkably complete record of Plio-Pleistocene shorelines, dunes, and cave systems.
From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2026
The Houthis command the Tihamah coastal plain, the eastern littoral of the Red Sea.
From Salon • Jul. 14, 2024
The new JL-3 will have a range of 5,400 nautical miles and be able to target portions of the continental United States from Chinese littoral waters.
From Washington Times • Nov. 8, 2023
The second is the Peruvian littoral, home of a much older civilization that has come to light only in the twenty-first century.*
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
