littoral

Example Sentences

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The U.S. recently moved littoral combat ships, which it uses to clear mines, out of the region.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 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