How to Use coastline in a Sentence

coastline

noun
  • The plane flew along the eastern coastline.
  • But this isn’t the case for all areas of the US coastline.
    Allison Chinchar, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • At the southern end of the park’s coastline is a two-mile beach.
    Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • And the city has more than 520 miles of coastline, in rich and poor areas alike.
    Anne Barnard Jade Doskow, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • If the project succeeds, the groups hope to install them in many places along the state’s coastline.
    Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • 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 sheets of striated rock reach up to 700 feet high and line more than six miles of coastline.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The Exxon Valdez spill blackened 1,500 miles of the Gulf of Alaska coastline, home to rich fishing grounds and wildlife.
    Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
  • But that scene is largely confined to a few strips of the southern coastline.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Gross recently saw some of the effects storms have had on the coastline.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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 30-second clip offers a glimpse at the Hawaiian coastline — and nothing else about the film.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 25 Nov. 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
  • The search covered many paths and wooded areas where Abbie might have walked, along with a search of the coastline.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The developing storm system was forecast to swing off the Oregon and Washington coastline, adding to the region's weather woes, the weather service said.
    John Bacon, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Vlorë, Albania Albania is a digital nomad’s playground—where stunning coastlines meet mountain escapes, all while the cost of living is a fraction of most global cities.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune Europe, 27 Nov. 2024

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