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Example sentences for "shoreline"

Lexicographically close words:
shopwoman; shore; shorebirds; shored; shoreless; shorely; shores; shoreside; shoreward; shorewards
  1. The tide was much lower than upon their last visit and the shoreline did not look the same.

  2. The tide was coming in and long rolling waves washed the beach, dashed themselves on the shoreline and retreated.

  3. Hawksworth studied the shoreline with the glass, and an audacious gamble began to take form in his mind.

  4. He remounted the steps to the quarterdeck and paused to study the green shoreline circling their inlet.

  5. He was in the lead Huey, now hovering slightly more than a kilometer away from the shoreline of Andikythera.

  6. After the raft was punctured, obliterating all evidence, the seven men of ARM set out, underwater, for the rugged shoreline of Andikythera.

  7. A long fork of lightning burst across the sky, illuminating the shoreline ahead of them.

  8. They're the only sections of shoreline where the surf's light enough for a troop ship to put in.

  9. Then I'd like to go up there, to try and get some idea what the shoreline looks like on the windward side.

  10. Along the curving shoreline a string of Dutch merchantmen were riding at anchor, all three-masted fluyts, their fore and main masts steeped far apart to allow room for a capacious hatch.

  11. At the shoreline opposite their anchorage a lantern was flashing.

  12. Atiba pointed down toward the wide sea that lay before them, a sparkling expanse spreading out from the shoreline at the bottom of the hill, faintly tinged with moonlight.

  13. He obviously understood the shoreline of Barbados better than anyone on the island.

  14. He was still staring down the shoreline in delight.

  15. The white sands of the shoreline were gliding past now, and behind them the palms nodded lazily in the sun.

  16. She abruptly turned and gestured toward the hazy shoreline across the bay.

  17. About six hundred yards from the shoreline the steep slope of a hill began.

  18. The shoreline cliffs provoked sobering thoughts in a young officer in the 24th Marines: We were close to the northern shoreline of the peninsula.

  19. Circling the shoreline at a distance of about a mile, a curtain of mist was visible.

  20. A jaguar went along the shoreline screeching at them.

  21. Bit by bit, though, shadows began to take shape and they were able to make out the exact shoreline and the tree clumps and building rooftops beyond.

  22. But when the waters came to rest along what is roughly the present shoreline of our inland sea, it was estimated that over fourteen million people had lost their lives.

  23. Once out among the rocks on the shoreline he could pull the blaster and herd the man to the flitter.

  24. Where it was clear of the purple stuff they could get a murky glimpse of the bottom, but the scum hid long stretches of shoreline and outer wave, and Dane wondered if the gorp used it as a protective covering.

  25. But between the village and the camp the shoreline cut abruptly inland for upwards of a mile, forming a wide, deep harbor which did much toward isolating the camp site from the rest of the world.

  26. It was impossible in the darkness to tell where the shoreline curved, but he had a feeling that it must be about this point.

  27. In the portion of the lake closest to the pavilion everything is wrought in great detail, whereas stones on the far side are vague and diffuse, so that the distant shoreline seems lost in misty recesses.

  28. Along with the Zen military training, the Japanese placed the entire country on a wartime footing, with every able-bodied man engaged in constructing shoreline fortifications.

  29. To the left of the shoreline was a dim purple shadow.

  30. The shoreline became more broken, a marching rampart of green fronds and trees, and behind them rose bare, sandy hills.

  31. Conan scanned the shoreline closely, and finally swung the long sweep and headed inshore at a point where a neck of land jutted into the water, and fir trees grew in a curiously symmetrical ring about a gray, strangely shaped rock.

  32. It is part of a shoreline she is trying to reach, but now she doesn't think she's going to get there.

  33. That's when she realizes the white light and this rocky shoreline represent the other side.

  34. They were to proceed along the road that paralleled the shoreline to a junction some 600 yards south of the airfield, where they were to leave the truck and proceed through the brush to Hanna’s position.

  35. Although Japanese troops had severed most wire communication lines, Platt remained in touch with developments at the shoreline by reports from Ray.

  36. The gunners moved them closer to the shoreline and camouflaged them with burnt brush because they lacked sandbags with which to construct defensive shelters for the gun crews.

  37. The effects of ice scour on the shoreline and the nearshore bottom of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas is demonstrated by the absence of sessile benthic fauna and flora.

  38. Other State laws offer additional protection to their habitat--specifically the Shoreline Management Act of 1971 and the State Environmental Act.

  39. One such study involves a comprehensive status survey of the marine shoreline fauna of Washington.

  40. One of the newer laws is the Shoreline Management Act of 1971.

  41. Very few were scattered along the shoreline in what one assumes is the traditional gull habitat.

  42. The developer, however, got caught in the requirements of our Shoreline Management Act with his last subdivision.

  43. We watch the shoreline slip by as we near the harbor entrance.

  44. It's quiet in this forest, and the lake's shoreline has plenty of the food we like.

  45. The rocks are huge, black, and jagged, and they line the shoreline as far as I can see in either direction.

  46. It is less than a hundred miles in length, but so numerous are the branches into which it divides, and so many its bays, harbors, and islands, that its entire shoreline is said to measure more than eighteen hundred miles.

  47. Then they could barely see the hazy shoreline at all.

  48. The sun, hazy and red like the face of a haymaker in harvest time, was going westward and would soon disappear behind the mountain ridge which followed the shoreline of the lake, but at a distance.

  49. The shoreline plant assemblage had a rather subtropical appearance.

  50. The skull of a large crocodile from near the shoreline of Lake Gosiute.

  51. As with the Sandstone Tongue, the edges of the Mudstone Tongue where it pinches out represent an ancient shoreline of Fossil Lake.

  52. The area of pinchout represents the shoreline at one stage of Fossil Lake.


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