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

It also continued to grow its coast-to-coast consumer and commercial bank, which today has $1.96 trillion in deposits, second only to JPMorgan Chase.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 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

As a coast-to-coast call went out for even more demonstrations, he worried: Would this tragedy become the cause of scores of others?

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge