tideline
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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About 60% of us in Wales live in coastal areas, with some communities living below the high tideline.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2021
Placozoans use their cilia to crawl randomly along rocks at the tideline until they detect microalgae and stop to graze.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 27, 2021
The wall is to guard against mudslides, she explains, gesturing at a ghostly tideline that rings the interior.
From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2020
They were also destroying the native tideline habitat, but this did not seem to concern them.
From Scientific American • Oct. 2, 2015
The storm had littered the shore and he walked the tideline looking for anything of use.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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