coastline
Americannoun
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the outline or contour of a coast; shoreline.
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the land and water lying adjacent to a shoreline.
noun
Etymology
Origin of coastline
Example Sentences
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The devastating effect of storms on seabirds, including the thousands of puffins washing up on the coastline in the South West, Channel Islands and France, has been well documented.
From BBC
They also could operate for weeks, if not months, in Iran’s mountainous coastline, even if “communication with Tehran frays.”
From MarketWatch
Previously, most spinosaurid fossils had been found near coastlines in North Africa.
From Barron's
They may have traveled along the coastlines of interconnected supercontinents during the first two million years of the Age of Dinosaurs.
From Science Daily
In recent years, development projects in Egypt's second city have razed historic parks and -- most egregiously to locals -- privatised and obstructed much of its Mediterranean coastline.
From Barron's
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