How to Use inland in a Sentence

inland

1 of 3 adjective
  • There will be a break in the rain that drenched some inland areas on Wednesday.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The mass killing and ensuing two-day manhunt have jarred this inland area of Maine.
    Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Smaller ice shelves lose the ability to block inland glaciers from reaching the sea.
    George Petras, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The rainfall was expected to be heaviest in the the coastal ranges over inland valleys.
    Austin Turner, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The threat heightens for coastal ranges and inland hills, which could get deluged with 3 to 6 inches of rain, the weather service said.
    Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Everyone knew the town was built on what had once been the shore of an enormous inland lake, called Tulare for the tules, or reeds, that grew around it.
    Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • The valley and inland areas are warm and dry, often as much as twenty degrees warmer than the coast.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Locally, parts of the inland Northeast could see more than 6 inches of snow.
    Max Golembo, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • March, Dall wrote, was a tough month for inland Natives, whose stores of salmon and other foods caught the year before were dwindling.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • On average, coastal brown bears eat more meat than their inland cousins.
    Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Coastal areas will bear the brunt of the heaviest rains and wind, though inland residents will get storms, too.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Amounts during this period were expected to be modest in the inland portions of the region like the South Bay and the East Bay.
    Austin Turner, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • High winds are also a concern for both inland and coastal areas.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2023
  • From there, most of the grain was supposed to be moved by barge through inland waterways to the Black Sea port of Constanta for shipment to Africa and elsewhere.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But in the last 25 years, the Salton Sea has become California's most polluted inland lake, and has lost a third of its water.
    Lindsey Griswold, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Many wild rice beds in Wisconsin and Minnesota are found on inland lakes.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Although inland areas are expected to stay warm, the coast will be plenty cool.
    Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
  • There's even a chance for 90-degree temperatures in the inland Northeast.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • For the first time ever, Indiana ports rank first among inland ports and second among Great Lakes ports for tons of cargo handled.
    Alex Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2023
  • Valleys and inland areas will see higher temperatures, with highs in the mid-80s to low-90s.
    Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The next storm will arrive late Monday night and will last well into Tuesday, dropping about a half-inch of rain in San Diego and a bit more across inland valleys and foothills.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Frost and patchy fog will then return by midnight in most of the inland valleys, as temperatures quickly drop to the upper 30s.
    Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Missiles capable of destroying cities are stored by the dozens in bunkers burrowed into the inland hills.
    Paul Sonne, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The weather service said cities at and near the coast will accumulate at least 2 inches of rain by the end of the weekend while inland valleys and foothills receive 4 to 5 inches.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The trees, part of the agave family and also sometimes called yucca palms, are hardy and adapted to the dry, rocky landscape of inland California.
    Liz Kreutz, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In Southern California, inland valleys are the hottest in mid-August, somewhat later than the rest of the country.
    Paul Duginski, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • On the navigation side, coastal and inland charts come standard with the ability to upload more detailed charts.
    Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The hilly grassland and dunes that characterize Ireland’s classic grounds inspired the inland Irish course.
    Katie Sweeney, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The couple brought their vision to life in Silver Bluff, far off the water, to show that even inland residences should be thinking about floods and rising waters, Caplow said.
    Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Several islands, inland lakes, and rivers also add to its beauty.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2024
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inland

2 of 3 noun
  • And the cloud deck could extend all the way to inland valleys.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Winds will also be gusty at times, both along the coast and inland.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 18 June 2021
  • Monday will be the warmest day of the week with highs in the upper 80s inland.
    oregonlive, 12 June 2023
  • The water running through the marshes is fresh inland and grows saltier closer to the sea.
    Boyce Upholt, Wired, 23 July 2022
  • The inland has a 60% chance of thunderstorms between the afternoon and evening.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Further south along the coast and inland is the Maremma Regional Park.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes, 29 May 2022
  • Tuesday will be much more comfortable with dew points in the mid-50s inland.
    Hartford Courant, 24 July 2022
  • The basin is itself a former inland lake, called Lake Manly, which has long since dried up.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The National Weather Service says a front shifting inland will bring rain to the metro area through about the lunch hour.
    oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2022
  • All tropical storm watches and warnings have been dropped for the coast and inland.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Flooding concerns are present along the coast as strong winds push water from the Atlantic inland.
    Janice Dean, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Dry air inland will keep the clouds at bay, but gusty winds will make temperatures feel chilly throughout the day.
    Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Port officials, though, hope to find a way to do a gradual slope toward the inland blocks.
    John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2021
  • These bears are found along the coast of Alaska and Canada and are omnivorous like their inland cousins.
    Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Officials in charge of the five major inland hatcheries that rear the fish say convoys of tanker trucks are the only way to ensure the 3-inch smolts make it to sea.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2021
  • It was first found in Washington’s inland waters in 2016.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 May 2022
  • It was first found in Washington's inland waters in 2016.
    CBS News, 20 May 2022
  • Building high pressure will lead to hot inland temps this weekend.
    Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2022
  • Highs will be noticeably cooler for East Bay inland spots and North Bay valley towns with highs in the lower 60s.
    Michelle Apon, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Oct. 2022
  • All tropical storm warnings have been dropped for Alabama, both along the coast and inland.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Winds were also expected to pick up again Monday in the inland Orange County area, with gusts up to 45 mph.
    City News Service, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The county’s inland valleys and foothills could be as much as 15 degrees below average by later in the week.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Some dunes are where the wind deposited millions of years of local dust; others are remnants of eon-old oceans and inland waters.
    Eric Jay Toll, Chron, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The system will prevent temperatures from rising above the low 60s in the San Diego area, and inland foothills will be notably cooler.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The dam upgrades would allow the salmon to swim up the Kennebec from the Atlantic Ocean to freshwater inland habitats for the first time since the construction of the dams in the 19th century, the agency said.
    Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Parts of inland Mississippi and Georgia were getting heavy rain from Claudette as well.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2021
  • As storms get stronger, coastal communities are exposed to inland flooding as well as coastal surges.
    Christopher Flavelle Tailyr Irvine, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Hurricane, storm surge and tropical storm warnings remain in effect all along the coast and inland as well.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Looking back 130 million years or so ago, the area resided on the shallows of a massive inland sea dividing the continent.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Some areas in California's inland desert could see their annual rainfall in just 48 hours.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2023
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inland

3 of 3 adverb
  • They traveled inland from the sea.
  • They live inland about three miles.
  • Highs will be in the 60s along the coast and low to mid-80s inland.
    Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
  • Smoke from the burning cane fields inland seasoned the air.
    Joy Williams, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Head inland to catch a glimpse of anteaters, sloths, monkeys, and bats.
    Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The person who took the video said it was taken about one and a half miles inland, and at low tide.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Fifteen moai stand on it, looking inland with their backs to the ocean.
    Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Our next stop was Viñales, a small city further inland.
    Moriah Balingit, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The low clouds that hugged the coast throughout the weekend will push inland and make for a cool start to the day, with temperatures in the 50s.
    Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
  • To get close to the Salmon, two graduate students and I took a six-seater bush plane inland from the Arctic coast.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The morning will be colder inland, with lows in mid- to to upper 30s from Concord to Sunol.
    Michelle Apon, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Researchers said that as the ice recedes, the bears are more likely to move inland and face humans.
    Joe Studley, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, the only U.S. destination on the list this year is miles away inland in Utah.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2024
  • As the eye moved inland, destructive winds shredded signs and rooftops.
    Daniel Kozin, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2023
  • At the same time, higher than normal tides were pushing water inland along the coast.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Ahead of the storm, lobstermen moved their boats and traps inland so they wouldn't be damaged in rough waters.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The calf was found by oil field workers about 4 miles inland from the Beaufort Sea, in Alaska’s extreme north.
    Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But on their first flight after leaving the burrow, some young birds get confused by the lights of the town and head inland instead of out to sea.
    Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The greatest amount of rainfall will occur in the coastal ranges with lesser amounts southward and points inland.
    Austin Turner, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Overnight temperatures Sunday will drop to the low 40s on the coast and upper 30s inland.
    Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
  • So, the beaches are fine, but farther inland is flooded.
    Time, 12 July 2023
  • Further inland, the lows will be lower, in some places even dropping to the 50s — but only slightly.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Depending on timing, the storm can move inland on the upper or lower part of the cycle.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • They were bundled up in parkas, with rifles strapped to their backs, heading inland to look for moose and caribou.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • This may help areas of the mid-to-southern Willamette Valley see a small measure of cooler air move inland.
    oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
  • San Marcos is located inland, but the weather service has placed it in the coastal zone.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • On Friday morning, the storm is moving inland into the Rockies, where 1 to 2 feet of snow is forecast.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But as the city has grown and changed, more and more travelers are venturing inland to the city's thriving downtown.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The lower, slower river flow and a deep, wide river channel set the stage for Gulf water to push inland.
    Kevin McGill and Stephen Smith The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2023
  • But as the storm moves inland, Arizonans can expect weaker systems and less rain.
    The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024

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