shoreline
noun
Examples of shoreline in a Sentence
Jp Shaffer, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
The drive winds through forests, mountains, and shorelines.
—Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
With its karst-flanked shoreline and tranquil water, the Jumeirah Muscat Bay beach resort looks like a screensaver.
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2024
The timing of when pinnipeds evolved might have contributed to their ecological attachment to the shoreline.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
Freshly baked pizza, ice-cold beers, and espressos are served up at Eric’s Kitchen, perfectly positioned to overlook the shoreline.
—Kissa Castañeda, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Besides trying out surfing, visitors can swim, dive, or sail along the stunning shoreline.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
Steelhead Where: Not nearly as many anglers play the spring steelhead game along the Great Lakes shoreline as do the fall.
—Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2024
There, local high school students and their teachers wade into about two feet of water around nets and traps that are set up along the shoreline where the glass eels swim.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2024
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Word History
1852, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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