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[ shawr-lahyn, shohr- ] / ˈʃɔrˌlaɪn, ˈʃoʊr- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR shoreline ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe line where shore and water meet. Origin of shorelineFirst recorded in 1850–55; shore1 + line1 Words nearby shorelineshore dinner, shore fly, shorefront, shore leave, shoreless, shoreline, shore patrol, shoreside, shore terrace, shore up, Shoreview Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for shorelineInvestigators have been combing an Oakland shoreline park trying to find the weapon in the murky shallow water. What Made One Goh, the Oikos University Shooter, Snap?|Dara Kerr|April 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST On Tuesday, he surveyed the shoreline in Pensacola Beach with President Obama. The Oil Spill Saved Crist|Samuel P. Jacobs|June 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST Walton County, located on the Florida panhandle, has already started spraying hay into the water if it arrives at the shoreline. 11 Extreme Oil Spill Solutions|The Daily Beast|May 12, 2010|DAILY BEAST These shoreline territories were plotted on field maps and appear on the map in plate 1, figure b. Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima|Glen E. Woolfenden
There's Hosken's blue boat; you'll find her moored off by a shoreline. The Mayor of Troy|Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch He walked over to the rail, where the two stood, looking out over the shoreline. The Players|Everett B. Cole A sea and a shoreline, where a peninsula projected like a giant boot—and he knew it for Italy and the waters of the Mediterranean. Astounding Stories, May, 1931|Various The break between the Andean Cordillera and the hill-dotted plains of the lower Urubamba valley is almost as sharp as a shoreline. The Andes of Southern Peru|Isaiah Bowman
British Dictionary definitions for shoreline
nounthe edge of a body of water Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to shorelineshore, beach, bank, coastline, seaboard, seashore, margin, strand, seaside, seacoast, littoral |