How to Use coast guard in a Sentence

coast guard

noun

• For the rest of that week, according to the coast guard, the Aegean Sea had been so rough that no boats had been able to land on the island.
  — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• The move led to deadly anti-China protests in Vietnam and clashes at sea between coast guard boats.
  — John Boudreau, Bloomberg.com, 19 June 2018
• The Greek coast guard came to the rescue, taking the passengers to the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos.
  — Wayne Martin Belger, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
• The sheriff's office, police department, and coast guard will also be patrolling the Lake Michigan waters.
  — Ahmed Elbenni, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2018
• More broadly, both coast guards and environmental groups believe that maritime drones will make the dispatching of manned patrols far more targeted and cost-effective.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• China’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, took part, as did a significant number of vessels from China’s coast guard, the largest in the world.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2024
• An Italian coast guard vessel brought back 67 migrants Thursday night to Trapani, in western Sicily.
  — Fox News, 13 July 2018
• Libya’s security situation remains unstable, but Europe has funded and trained the Libyan coast guard to catch and take back migrants who attempt to leave in dinghies and small boats.
  — Valentina Pop, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• In just a decade, China has amassed the world’s largest coast guard fleet.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• Halfway back, the coast guard met them and two paramedics jumped aboard.
  — Nick Perry, Twin Cities, 14 Dec. 2019
• All night, the Libyan coast guard’s phones had gone unanswered.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
• The Haitian coast guard rescued more than 40 survivors, the IOM said.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• The coast guard said 16 of the bodies were young African women, while one was a young man.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
• The coast guard was sending divers to help in the rescue efforts.
  — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The coast guard delivered the survivors to the prisons.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
• Tweets from the coast guard featured dramatic video of the fire.
  — oregonlive, 18 June 2022
• The tour boat has since lost contact, according to the coast guard.
  — NBC News, 24 Apr. 2022
• The migrants picked up by the coast guard tended to face grisly fates.
  — Ian Urbina, The Atlantic, 6 May 2021
• Survivors told the coast guard that about 80 people had been on the vessel.
  — Derek Gatopoulos, ajc, 25 Dec. 2021
• The coast guard said the 10 victims — seven men and three women — were adults.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• The ship reversed course and sent out a search crew who found her body with the help of the Japanese coast guard.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019
• They were rescued by the coast guard the following day.
  — Jim Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2021
• China has both the world’s largest navy, in terms of sheer ship numbers, as well as the world’s largest coast guard.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 8 July 2024
• But the coast guard caught the Oyang 77, confiscated the catch, and destroyed its nets.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 2 Nov. 2022
• Just off shore, the coast guard discovered the other bodies on the yacht.
  — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2022
• One of them told the coast guard that the ship capsized after an engine stopped and it was hit by a large wave.
  — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• The pilot of the coast guard’s Bombardier Dash-8 plane escaped but the five crew members died, Saito said.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2024
• In the past, the Greek government has used the coast guard to deter migration.
  — Karam Shoumali, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• At least 120 migrants were aboard the vessel, according to the coast guard.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023
• The ramming damaged the 320-foot Teresa Magbanua, one of the Philippines’ largest coast guard cutters, but no personnel were injured, Tarriela said.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024