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
The wall is to guard against mudslides, she explains, gesturing at a ghostly tideline that rings the interior.
From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2020
Like kids building sandcastles below the tideline on the beach, scientists will let the walls of water crash on dikes of different designs and other structures—sometimes until they're destroyed.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 2, 2015
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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