How to Use seacoast in a Sentence

seacoast

noun
  • That’s the salty taste of summertime on the Atlantic seacoast.
    Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022
  • That has me wondering how much longer life along the Gulf Coast—or any seacoast—will be viable.
    Edward McClelland, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
  • When the rules changed in the late 19th century, some workers left for the seacoast to make their livings in open fishing boats.
    Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
  • As sea trade increased, maps of the New World became better, at least the seacoasts and major rivers, places the beaver trade depended on.
    Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 27 June 2017
  • And in that, every country -- rich or poor, large or small, landlocked or with a long seacoast -- can learn from what Israel has done.
    Seth M. Siegel, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Jenness Beach is one of five state park beaches along New Hampshire’s seacoast.
    USA TODAY, 14 June 2019
  • If there’s no room at the shelter on the seacoast, for example, the 211 hotline would pay for a taxicab for someone to come to our shelter.
    Kriston Capps, Slate Magazine, 3 July 2017
  • In the case of the Ogonek, scenes of a river and seacoast in southern Oregon and the high desert terrain of northern New Mexico inform the five sections.
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
  • Kristin loved the ocean, spending endless summer days on the NH seacoast with her children, family and friends.
    courant.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • One half of the West — the half that lives mostly on the seacoasts of America and Western Europe — loves globalization.
    Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 25 May 2017
  • Take a ride to the seacoast of New Hampshire to visit these lovely oceanfront gardens, with thousands of roses and hundreds of varieties.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2021
  • Its mission was to secure the borders between inspection stations and patrol the seacoast.
    Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
  • At the turn of the 20th century, whenever Bostonians gathered by a riverfront, lakeside or seacoast to spend their leisure time, Maurice Prendergast was there to record the scene.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The train journeys past terraced rice fields, mountains, and seacoast, stopping to visit ancient shrines and temples, working farms and vineyards, and artisanal ateliers along the way.
    Andrew Sessa, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2017
  • Right whales typically give birth off the southeastern U.S. seacoast between December and late March.
    Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2018
  • A frustrated Eisenhower broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba and closed the embassy on the Havana seacoast.
    Anthony Depalma, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2016
  • Bramante settled into a black leather recliner for an interview at her house overlooking Great Bay on New Hampshire’s seacoast.
    Chris Berdik, WIRED, 4 Aug. 2016
  • Many were built near seacoasts or river deltas to minimize disturbances to humans or avoid natural obstacles like mountains.
    Mike Ives, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Don enjoyed many hobbies in his leisure time including gardening but especially loved vacationing along the seacoast of Maine.
    courant.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Nickerson chooses as guides several early artist-naturalists associated with the eastern seacoast.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2019

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