shoreline

[ shawr-lahyn, shohr- ]
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noun
  1. the line where shore and water meet.

Origin of shoreline

1
First recorded in 1850–55; shore1 + line1

Words Nearby shoreline

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How to use shoreline in a sentence

  • Investigators have been combing an Oakland shoreline park trying to find the weapon in the murky shallow water.

  • On Tuesday, he surveyed the shoreline in Pensacola Beach with President Obama.

    The Oil Spill Saved Crist | Samuel P. Jacobs | June 19, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Walton County, located on the Florida panhandle, has already started spraying hay into the water if it arrives at the shoreline.

    11 Extreme Oil Spill Solutions | The Daily Beast | May 12, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Looking ahead toward the shoreline, Madge saw a sheet of white mist drop like a curtain upon the water.

    The Missing Formula | Mildred A. Wirt, AKA Ann Wirt
  • He gazed down on the lake and the shoreline where the hotel would be built, and the places where roads came out of the wilderness.

    Operation Terror | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • Once out among the rocks on the shoreline he could pull the blaster and herd the man to the flitter.

    Plague Ship | Andre Norton
  • The red glory of the dying sun tinted the waters of the Gulf to the line of palm-fringed beach which edged the distant shoreline.

    Terry | Charles Goff Thomson
  • The shoreline is timbered and beautiful, but the water looks dead, and not a sand beach is to be seen.

    Days in the Open | Lathan A. Crandall

British Dictionary definitions for shoreline

shoreline

/ (ˈʃɔːˌlaɪn) /


noun
  1. the edge of a body of water

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