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coastline
[ kohst-lahyn ]
noun
- the outline or contour of a coast; shoreline.
- the land and water lying adjacent to a shoreline.
coastline
/ ˈəʊˌɪ /
noun
- the outline of a coast, esp when seen from the sea, or the land adjacent to it
Word History and Origins
Origin of coastline1
Example Sentences
There, along the county’s coastline, lifeguards may be the first ones to spot the bloom’s latest victim.
Outside her window, farmland rolls into rocky coastline, hemming a glasslike bay striped with turquoise and populated by showboating dolphins.
Although conditions are set to improve on Monday, authorities urged those visiting the coastline to exercise caution.
Looking to the future, Mueller dreams of installing her steel-frame sculptures along the California coastline, a project she’s dubbed “The String of Light That Connects All Things.”
The hiker and a companion had wandered off the remote 53-mile hiking path that follows the northern California coastline of redwoods and black sand beaches when one of them fell 100 feet.
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