How to Use seawall in a Sentence

seawall

noun

• Next to the street is a staircase that leads to a walkway that hugs a seawall.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2021
• The seawall at a restaurant across the street is crumbling.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 9 Nov. 2022
• Pause at the seawall along the way and watch for seals splashing around in the lagoon inlet.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
• The suit argues that a seawall by the long stairway to the beach stopped erosion around the stairs but weakened the bluff at the ends of the wall.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
• Use the bluff-top concrete path, or walk along the lower seawall.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
• And the seawalls the Army Corps is proposing for the area could serve to make residents feel all the more confined.
  — Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• The work included building a massive rock seawall at the foot of the slide.
  — Fox News, 1 May 2018
• The 74-year-old ran over to the seawall that shields the town from encroachment from the ocean, joining about 70 others.
  — Audrey McAvoy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• The new height rules will apply to public seawalls too.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
• To remove the weed, engineers built a seawall and flooded the wetland to drown the grass.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023
• After the 2018 storm, the town made temporary repairs to the seawall.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• The study found that the soils south of the Bay Bridge to where the seawall ends at Mission Creek are more stable than expected.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• In New York City, that includes three seawall-like projects to protect swaths of the city prone to flooding.
  — Mara Gay, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• But the price tag was steep: about $150 million, largely for erecting the seawall.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023
• Hotel guests can lounge by the pool, book a massage at the spa, or ride one of the hotel beach cruisers along the seawall.
  — Jennifer Simonson, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2022
• Try along seawalls, and near docks, and drift with crickets for steady action.
  — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2018
• In an aerial video released by the group, the whale could be seen very close to a seawall near one of Barcelona's main beaches.
  — Mike Fuller, Star Tribune, 10 May 2021
• One woman, drink in hand, sat at the edge of the seawall, getting pummeled by waves that crashed over her head.
  — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• In fact, this is what Galveston had already tried to do with the ten-mile-long seawall that was built after the 1900 storm.
  — Xander Peters, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
• Lajoie was right: the seawall beneath Esplanade Drive did not stop the sea.
  — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
• The city just finished a year-long improvement project to the seawall, adding 2 feet in height to help with flooding.
  — Staff Report, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Watch the 500m races from the seawall at Tom McCall Waterfront park.
  — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
• The woman eats from a foam container and chats with the little girl sitting on the seawall.
  — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
• The green iguanas cause damage to seawalls, sidewalks and landscape plants, the FWC said.
  — Fox News, 4 July 2019
• Staff removed a portion of seawall and built an earthen ramp to the water’s edge.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 14 July 2021
• The $54 million project included building a massive rock seawall at the foot of the slide.
  — Fox News, 13 June 2018
• In those cases, the seawall is left in place and some of the ecosystem services can be achieved by placing rock in front of the seawall.
  — Thomas F. Ries, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
• The storm whipped up strong waves that pushed the Atlantic Ocean above seawalls and into parts of Galway, Ireland.
  — Aj Willingham and Brandon Miller, CNN, 16 Oct. 2017
• Her seawall drops about 7 feet into a mucky gully where freshwater once flowed from a manmade reservoir known as Wixom Lake.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2024
• News footage from coastal communities showed waves from lakes, rivers and Gulf waters thrashing seawalls.
  — Jack Brook, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024