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shoreline

[ shawr-lahyn, shohr- ]

noun

  1. the line where shore and water meet.


shoreline

/ ˈʃɔːˌlaɪn /

noun

  1. the edge of a body of water


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shoreline1

First recorded in 1850–55; shore 1 + line 1

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Example Sentences

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.

Walton County, located on the Florida panhandle, has already started spraying hay into the water if it arrives at the shoreline.

Looking ahead toward the shoreline, Madge saw a sheet of white mist drop like a curtain upon the water.

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.

Once out among the rocks on the shoreline he could pull the blaster and herd the man to the flitter.

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.

The shoreline is timbered and beautiful, but the water looks dead, and not a sand beach is to be seen.

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