Example Sentences

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Although my original plan was to take photos, my childhood enthusiasm for beachcombing spontaneously returned, and I used my backpack’s rain cover to make a makeshift bag for my shell collection.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2022

Head to the sandy beach for volleyball nets, kite flying, castle-building and beachcombing for “weird rocks” of your own.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2022

It’s a display of sonic beachcombing, of numbing esotericity.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2021

A family of squirrels — beachcombing squirrels, if there is such a thing — nibbles on pristine green grass in right-center field.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2021

Ornate birds here rested their stretched wings— horned owls, falcons, cormorants—long-tongued beachcombing birds, and followers of the sea.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer