How to Use coastline in a Sentence

coastline

noun
  • The plane flew along the eastern coastline.
  • The island’s coastline is dotted with 85 official dive sites.
    Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • There's some evidence that climate change is behind a decrease in shear near coastlines globally.
    Andrew Freedman, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Danes are only allowed to harvest from the piles of salty strands that break away in storms and wash up on the coastline—and would otherwise be cleared off the beach and tossed out.
    Anna Fiorentino, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Once at the top, visitors are rewarded with spectacular views both through the natural window formed by the hole and over the Helgeland coastline.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • This northeastern area, defined by a long coastline and mountains, can lay claim to parmesan cheese, balsamic vinegar, Parma ham and stuffed pasta like tortellini.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Architects argue the wide and purposely jagged coastline will be far easier to bolster and even raise, if sea levels exceed forecasts, than extending a wall higher.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
  • From our beautiful coastline to our vibrant, binational cultural experience, to say our region has a lot to do and see is an understatement.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • But this isn’t the case for all areas of the US coastline.
    Allison Chinchar, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Not just the city of Pompeii, but all of the environs and all that whole coastline.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The 30-second spot, opening like a tourism ad, shows palm trees and coastlines.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Around this time, Johnson ordered a course change that would bring the ship closer to the coastline.
    Longreads, 4 May 2023
  • But that scene is largely confined to a few strips of the southern coastline.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The search resumed Monday morning with boats and a plane, while ground teams scoured the coastline on foot.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Most sirens are located around the coastline and used for tsunamis.
    Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
  • These are the best places to enjoy the stunning Spanish coastline.
    Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The outdoor wedding featured a backdrop of the redwoods and the coastline.
    Emily J. Shiffer, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Alaska’s coastline is shaped by glaciers, which carve out fjords and drain silt into the sea.
    Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Ishikawa is the rugged Noto coastline and the serene Kenrokuen Gardens.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • With most of the state’s coastline in private hands, 1,500 feet of shoreline is not nothing.
    Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2024
  • Launching in June 2024, the new overnight journey will trail through the French countryside and along the coastline of the Mediterranean.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The toll is expected to climb and Beryl’s passage along the Jamaican coastline could add to it.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 July 2024
  • Surf is expected to range from 2 to 4 feet along the San Diego County coastline.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2023
  • The track of the storm as forecast has the center of the storm hundred of miles east of the coastline, but the impacts on the western side can still be notable.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • All of these measures are already widely used on coastlines around the world.
    Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • This 200-mile stretch of coastline has one of the highest rates of erosion and sea level rise in New Zealand.
    Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • And yet, the kitchen in question isn’t located along an beachy coastline.
    Madeleine Luckel, Architectural Digest, 16 July 2024
  • Start your visit by basking on the sands at Sombrero Beach and explore the coastline from there.
    Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Completed in 2010, the homes are situated atop a bluff on the edge of a steep, rocky coastline.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 4 July 2024
  • During the latter half of the morning and into the afternoon on Tuesday, the rain will turn to snow right at the coastline.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023

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