coast-to-coast

American  

[kohst-tuh-kohst] / ˈkoʊst təˈkoʊst /

adjective

1. extending, going, or operating from one coast of the U.S. to the other.

   a coast-to-coast television network.

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Etymology

Origin of coast-to-coast

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

It would connect Union Pacific’s network in the Western U.S. with Norfolk Southern’s East Coast lines, creating a coast-to-coast network that could transport products and agricultural goods across 43 states to around 100 ports.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

The companies’ proposed $71.5 billion merger, announced in July, would form a single company controlling coast-to-coast rail shipments for the first time in U.S. history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

The famed Pony Express, which rushed the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to California in November 1860, went out of business less than a year later, after the telegraph made coast-to-coast communications infinitely faster.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

On Winter Hill, about a solo coast-to-coast walk Winn completed without husband Moth, had been scheduled to be published in October.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

Thanks to the coast-to-coast radio hookup, millions of people heard Marian Anderson sing that day.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman