beach

On a vast beach in Morocco last year, waves were pummeling one of humanity’s oldest plot devices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Just over a year later, in June 2022, Jeremy died after eating a beef sausage on a camping trip with friends at a beach north of Sydney.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Davis said the train is typically busy on the weekends with people going to and from the beach, and there were about 500 passengers on board at the time it broke down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

And, perhaps most memorably significant, the Trojan Horse is discovered half-submerged on the beach, and not outside Troy’s gates on wheels.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

A short beach of gray-white sand led to the cliff edge, which rose, a great face of variegated rock, for fifty feet.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

The director’s method was to work out the specifics in the film’s environments, namely the beaches of Morocco’s Essaouira and in the mountain village of Aït Benhaddou, where Troy was constructed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

You don’t have to spend big to explore St. Tropez’s picturesque back streets, beaches and local eats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Mexico's navy secretary Admiral Raymundo Morales told a press conference that there was "no serious impact", but that people were being advised to stay away from beaches.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Move over, Jaws: Quaint New England beaches face painful new threat.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Then Gram opens her present from me, which is a bracelet made of shells from beaches around the world, and she right away puts it on and says it's just what she wanted.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick

The image of the beached horse first lodged in Nolan’s mind over 20 years ago when he was in the running to direct a movie based on another Homeric epic, “The Iliad.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

But I can choose to recognize that some performers, artistic works and brands are simply too big to fail or bury, so they become some version of a beached grey whale’s corpse.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

Vonk and his team ensure the country is ready for extreme scenarios: a drought meaning all inland shipping is beached or a devastating storm surge.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

Tasmania's Department of Natural Resources and Environment said 157 false killer whales had beached near Arthur River, in the island's north west.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025

In the distance a flat-bottomed motorboat lay beached on a strip of sand scarcely wide enough to accommodate it.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

A humpback whale that underwent a rescue operation in Germany two weeks ago after beaching itself there has been found dead near a Danish island, officials said Saturday.

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

These beaching events confront us with a little-understood but essential facet of marine ecology — and may become more common as the oceans warm.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024

A pod of nearly 100 pilot whales displayed unusual behavior before beaching themselves in Australia.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

Once the whales began beaching themselves on the shore, wildlife authorities launched an emergency response effort in a bid to save them.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023

She could feel the dream shallowing, like a sleek ship beaching on a shoal.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor