coastline

Example Sentences

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Forces deployed along Iran’s coastline have more extensive exposure to armed operations than those in the country’s interior, which hasn’t seen direct combat since the war with Iraq.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

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

Now we were heading straight toward the Atlantic Ocean at a thousand miles an hour, the New England coastline off to our right.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan