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Example sentences for "seacoast"

Lexicographically close words:
seabirds; seaboard; seaboards; seaborne; seabreeze; seafarer; seafarers; seafaring; seafood; seafowl
  1. To this Frank agreed; and for several days he and his brother went from one seacoast settlement to another, making inquiries.

  2. From here a force went down the river to the seacoast to find the harbor and to find out about the ships.

  3. At this place he waited until April 6, in order to send to the seacoast and summon some Indians, from whom he hoped to secure further information about the pearl islands of which Cabeza de Vaca had heard.

  4. On his way up this valley of Sonora, Friar Marcos heard that the seacoast turned toward the west.

  5. Knowing as we do that the line of the seacoast is ever-changing, uprising taking place at some points and down-sinking at others, it seems not unlikely that these irregular swayings are of very common occurrence.

  6. It had spared practically all of Alaska, nearly all of British Columbia, most of Washington, western Oregon and the seacoast of northern California.

  7. Sandy’s Uncle Russ had been brought up on the seacoast of California.

  8. But Valley View was only a couple of hours from the seacoast and now that Sandy was old enough to drive a car, it would be possible for him to own and enjoy a sailboat.

  9. There was a driving trade between Pittsburgh and New Orleans, the goods being drawn to Pittsburgh from the seacoast cities by great four-horse wagons, and being exported in ships from New Orleans to all parts of the earth.

  10. We now expect our seacoast ravaged; perhaps the very next letter I write will inform you that I am driven away from our yet quiet cottage.

  11. The seacoast between Cadiz and Malaga no longer lighted.

  12. Livingstone's "Last Journeys" was published from the manuscript which his faithful servants brought to the seacoast with the mortal remains of their gentle master.

  13. As yet, however, neither merchant nor missionary was allowed to penetrate into the interior; while the capital and the whole of the northern seacoast remained inaccessible.

  14. In his own researches, which have been principally carried on upon the seacoast of New England, he has never found an example of them in the shell-heaps proper, which are universally recognized by archæologists as relics of the Indians.

  15. The canoes of the Tillamooks and other tribes living on the seacoast were upwards of fifty feet long, and would carry eight or ten thousand pounds' weight, or twenty-five or thirty persons.

  16. This is the extent of the seacoast of the United States, not including bays, sounds, and small irregularities of the main shore and of the sea islands.

  17. From that time, then, the seacoast Indians of that island have been subject to the mild yoke of the Spanish crown, and have given signs of extreme loyalty.

  18. It is on the open seacoast and catches all the fierce storms that sweep northward over Bering Sea.

  19. The German fishermen of the Baltic had, like their North Seacoast brethren, been called to the colors in great numbers.

  20. At the seacoast the shore of the mainland and of the islands belonging to the national territory constitutes the customs boundary.

  21. They were watching the seacoast and trying to communicate with the American ships of war, which could be seen on fair days lying in the offing.

  22. They have our whole seacoast and Cuba to pick from," Commodore Schley said.

  23. No, they'll bombard one of our down-east seacoast cities," said another.

  24. The transfer to the small seacoast settlement was a matter of some work, but in a week all was arranged, and the members of the company were settled in a large, comfortable house, close to the beach.

  25. The Cherokees gave up some of their lands; of the four seacoast provinces South Carolina gained most, as was proper, for she had done and suffered most.

  26. All this time there penetrated through the sombre forests faint echoes of the strife the men of the seacoast had just begun against the British king.

  27. You must keep away from the seacoast for awhile.

  28. He will soon crush our assailants on the seacoast as he has the gringo mob under Taylor!

  29. Then I came on with General Scott all the way from the seacoast to this place.

  30. It is gratifying to note that we have begun to attain completed results in the comprehensive scheme of seacoast defense and fortification entered upon eight years ago.

  31. It follows from the same causes that the United States is compelled to actively police a long line of seacoast against unlawful expeditions, the escape of which the utmost vigilance will not always suffice to prevent.

  32. They were followers of Powhatan--Chief of the Indians of seacoast Virginia, and one of the most remarkable warriors of history.

  33. You Americans have driven the Indians from the seacoast to where we now stand, and you will soon drive us into the lakes.

  34. He probably could have forced the cession of adjacent seacoast to the inestimable and lasting benefit of Bolivia, but his ambition led him farther.

  35. Weeks of the most difficult journeying are required to get to the seacoast or any of the other states, and Panama might as well be on the other side of the globe so far as practical communication goes.

  36. Peru retained the seacoast directly to the west as well as all the Titicacan basin north and west of the lake, compelling Bolivian commerce to pass through foreign territory in order to reach the ocean.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seacoast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.