shoreless
Americanadjective
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without a shore suitable for landing
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poetic boundless; vast
the shoreless wastes
Etymology
Origin of shoreless
Example Sentences
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The words: “Who would wormlike crawl to shore/When she may sail shoreless, indefinite as God?”
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2012
Hence, to the right-minded mariner, and to him who studies the physical relations of earth, sea, and air, the atmosphere is something more than a shoreless ocean, at the bottom of which he creeps along.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2010
Forever young, forever brave, forever proud, Mary Hansyke walked across the old shipyard, while the John Garton moved down the harbor, her keel parting a shoreless sea, her prow lifted to the air of eternity.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the national map it was only a little puddle, but to Army planes flying succor, it looked like a shoreless yellow sea studded here and there with tree tops and half submerged buildings.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the sound of water that Merry heard falling into his quiet sleep: water streaming down gently, and then spreading, spreading irresistibly all round the house into a dark shoreless pool.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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