shoreline

Noun

Meaning

a boundary line between land and water

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

costa bank coast beach riverside littoral seacoast plage land front strand sands seashore edge coastal
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Antonyms

center oasis home water inside middle
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Hypernyms

bound boundary bounds

Phrases with the word

shoreline indentation north shoreline northern shoreline shoreline areas shoreline zone along the shoreline

Examples

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W. Sockman

'Cause it's a good night To be out there soakin' up the moonlight. Stake out a little piece of shoreline. I've got the perfect place in mind. It's in the middle of nowhere; only way to get there You got to get a little mud on the tires. Brad Paisley

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes. Huston Smith

A biological survey by the Chagos Conservation Trust reported that the resulting inundation additionally washed away shoreline shrubs and small to medium-size coconut palms. Source: Internet

A beach closed due to oil contamination along the shoreline at Marina Bay. Source: Internet

Adding to the trouble is that part of the town’s protective system, a steel wall bordering the shoreline, recently failed by collapsing under the pressure of surging water. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

shorelessly shorelessness shorelike shoreline areas shoreline barometer shoreline figwort