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Meanings of shoreline in English

The outline of a coast.

Synonyms
Examples for "coastline"
Examples for "coastline"
1
You hardly needed to know any navigation; you'd just follow the coastline.
Life
2
Meanwhile, state officials made coastline preparations for oil from the Gulf spill.
Reuters
3
I doubt I will ever forget my first sight of Japan's coastline.
Occupied city
4
On a clear day, the coastline would've been visible from Rebel Island.
Rebel island
5
The bow-wave turned in chrome coils as the coastline dropped from view.
Unmanned
Usage of shoreline in English
1
We gazed west to the sea and shoreline towns across the bay.
Climbing Magazine
2
Its shoreline is pounded by some of the best surf in Europe.
The Irish Times
3
But the proposal met stiff opposition from some residents of shoreline communities.
Reuters
4
People who lived along the shoreline had seen the dragonship by now.
Bones of the Dragon
5
The second involves taking in the scenic shoreline of the Shannon Estuary.
The Irish Times
6
Coastal communities along the west Cork shoreline are no strangers to tragedy.
The Irish Times
7
The tides then deposited their bodies on the Mississippi shoreline, he said.
Reuters
8
He centered the shoreline of the bay and put on maximum magnification.
A Matter of Importance
9
Elsewhere, the wave caused unimaginable devastation all along the continent's eastern shoreline.
Earth strike: star carrier: book one
10
Twenty yards down the shoreline, the Shug waded out of the water.
Pandemonium
11
The Chikoya were starting to regroup along the shoreline ahead of Oscar.
The evolutionary void
12
The water from the shoreline to the sandbar was only about hip-deep.
Secret of the Dragon
13
It also worked to restore much of the shoreline and associated wetlands.
Reuters
14
We watch the shoreline slip by as we near the harbor entrance.
A Grandpa's Notebook / Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Enc...
15
Scan the shoreline or check upstream for contaminants such as dead animals.
Survive!: essential skills and tactics to get you out of anywher...
16
Crews have been working in dinghies to clean up along the shoreline.
Radio NZ
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Shoreline across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common