coastland
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of coastland
Example Sentences
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The action all takes place on a small spot of coastland in fictitious Luna Bay, Australia, where Cage’s character claims he grew up before moving to California at age 15.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025
Chicha was essential to the Inca, for whom it was a fundamental domestic product, traded from coastland to inland, up and down the continent.
From Seattle Times • May 18, 2022
The storm is projected to move slowly up the coastland which could dump torrential amounts of rain over several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
From Fox News • Sep. 13, 2021
By 2016, the state had lost an estimated 4800 square kilometers of coastland since the 1930s.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 22, 2021
Sandwiched between the Andes and the Pacific, Peru’s coastland is a skinny gray-brown ribbon.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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