How to Use coast guard in a Sentence

coast guard

noun

• The fire was extinguished after about three hours, coast guard officials said.
  — USA TODAY, 17 June 2020
• The British coast guard did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  — Fox News, 3 Sep. 2024
• The collision caused minor damage to the Greek vessel, and there were no injuries, the Greek coast guard said.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
• In recent years, the European Union has partnered with the coast guard and other Libyan forces to stop the flow of migrants.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2020
• Air ambulances and coast guard helicopters came and went as the rescue operation unfolded.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Aug. 2020
• The local coast guard branch said the fire started in a storage area on the top deck of the Asuka II, one of Japan's largest cruise ships.
  — USA TODAY, 17 June 2020
• Most survivors were saved by private vessels rather than the coast guard, whose officials seemed more concerned with keeping up appearances to superiors than saving lives.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• Vietnam protested in April after a Chinese coast guard ship rammed and sank a boat with eight fishermen off the Paracel Islands.
  — Fox News, 29 June 2020
• Jones’ time on the coast and near the border gave him experience with cooperating with other agencies, often federal ones like border patrol, the navy and coast guard.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• In just a decade, China has amassed the world’s largest coast guard fleet.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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 Navy turned over the vessel, cargo and Yemeni crew to Yemen’s coast guard earlier this week.
  — Isabel Debre, ajc, 23 Jan. 2022
• The transcript shows that the Japan Airlines jet was cleared to land and that the coast guard plan was instructed to hold short of the runway.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
• The anchor used to hold the floating barrier which was removed by the coast guard.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
• Evidence suggests that the Greek coast guard could have helped save them, but did not.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024