Definition of coastland in English:
coastland
nounˈkəʊs(t)landˈkəʊs(t)ləndˈkōstland
mass nounalso coastlandsAn expanse of land near the sea.
Example sentencesExamples
- For a course at the Helsinki University of Technology, we imagined a day when global warming had caused the polar ice caps to melt and the sea level to rise, submerging coastlands and whole islands.
- Originating in the early 1970's, these were the workhorses of BC's big wood logging operations up and down the coastland.
- And that is how a state effort to protect coastlands derailed the most environmentally progressive development California had ever seen.
- The area would never become like Mexico's coastlands.
- A walker with plenty of stamina and a fair sense of balance can make a memorable week's hike westward along the Sfakiot coastlands by way of the footpaths through these great canyons.
- They carry silt from the Mississippi River that replenishes the delta and keeps the coastland above the water line, creating a gradual buffer from the sea.
- Less than a half hour in length, the film centres on the activities of an oil company who want to buy coastland beside a major oil field find in the Atlantic.
- Your sacrifices and fortitude are honored and your rewards are the gratitude of those saved at sea, a cleaner coastland, a more educated public and a safer America.
- In the next forty years, English and Flemish settlers poured into the rich arable coastlands of south Wales.
- During most of its history Libya has been inhabited by Arab and Berber nomads, only the coastlands and oases being settled.