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

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern in July disclosed their merger, which would create a single company controlling coast-to-coast rail shipments for the first time in U.S. history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

One would hope that economic commentators coast-to-coast mentioned Green as their “person I’m most thankful for” at their family gatherings that week, because he gave them something to masticate ever since.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 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

During Kelter's 10-minute stint in the sin-bin, Maud Muir shunted over from close range before Kildunne crossed at the end of a sweeping coast-to-coast move.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

The old coast-to-coast Lincoln Highway, a road that brought transforming wealth and life to hundreds of little towns, so important and familiar that it became known as “America’s Main Street,” didn’t last as long.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson