seaboard
the line where land and sea meet.
a region bordering a seacoast: the Eastern seaboard.
bordering on or adjoining the sea.
Origin of seaboard
1Other words from seaboard
- in·ter·sea·board, adjective
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How to use seaboard in a sentence
Then there’s the wild and rugged Monongahela National Forest on the outskirts, stacked with some of the most challenging singletrack on the eastern seaboard.
Offshore wind is one of the world’s best decarbonization tools, especially to power densely populated coastal areas like the Eastern seaboard.
Climate Crises Dominated 2021. But These Innovations Offer Some Hope | Alejandro de la Garza | December 28, 2021 | TimeThis is not a story confined to the seaboard towns but one whose impact stretched to the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Plains, the Caribbean and ultimately India.
An expanded perspective, and a controversial claim, on America’s revolution | Jack Rakove | November 19, 2021 | Washington PostIn 1792, festivities around the 300th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage took place all along the Eastern seaboard, from Boston to South Carolina, in the form of poetry, monuments and newspaper coverage.
How Christopher Columbus Became an Italian-American Icon | Olivia B. Waxman | October 8, 2021 | TimeWith the primary instruments of the northeastern seaboard states’ efforts to protect themselves from the ills of mass migration gone, these states clamored for national government reimbursement to regulate poor, sickly and disabled migrants.
We all know that people on the Eastern seaboard can adopt foreign grocery concepts as their own, even if they come from Texas.
Wall Street Gets Punked Again With Sprouts Farmers Market IPO | Daniel Gross | August 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWatching Sandy on her careening path toward the Eastern seaboard scares me more than it would have 15 months ago.
Bill McKibben on Why ‘Frankenstorm’ Is Just Right for Hurricane Sandy | Bill McKibben | October 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was easy to avoid foreign entanglements when it was a small country clinging to the Eastern seaboard of North America.
In the years before the American Revolution, few colonists on the Atlantic seaboard joined militias or even knew how to use arms.
Tens of thousands line up to pay their respects as Hurricane Danny moves slowly up the Atlantic seaboard and darkens the sky.
The seaboard will sue the new railroad for damages for failure to have the tracks into the cuttings on time.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandContract with the seaboard folks makes it look like it would pay eighteen, twenty per cent on the investment, maybe more.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandOne is apt to forget that Old Castile is one of the provinces having a northern seaboard.
Spanish Life in Town and Country | L. Higgin and Eugne E. StreetOr would he move his right flank along the Blue Ridge, crowding Lee to the seaboard?
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.As it draws nearer we see that it is a caravan of wild animals on their way from the interior to the seaboard.
British Dictionary definitions for seaboard
/ (ˈsiːˌbɔːd) /
land bordering on the sea; the seashore
(as modifier): seaboard towns
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