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shoreline - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- lake: The cloud quickly enveloped houses within the crater that were 120 meters above the shoreline of the lake.
Converse of object
- protect: The strategy of the Shoreline Management Plan for Worthing is to protect the shoreline in its present position.
- explore: A lot of people took up the offer of the canoe to explore the shoreline further than you could on foot.
- follow: There is a footpath that follows the shoreline from Dukes road to Northam Bridge on the west bank.
- have: But only in a few places has the shoreline survived unravaged.
Adjective modifier
- rocky: We dragged the boats up a steep rocky shoreline to camp on its north shore.
- rugged: Soaring mountains, cliffs and ravines rise dramatically from this rugged shoreline.
- sandy: I walked over the sandy shoreline, letting my feet sink into the ground.
- eastern: This path makes its way along the eastern shoreline to the end of loch.
- southern: Poole has six main accesses to the beach all next to each other along the southern shoreline.
- northern: Waves of this height would only occur along the northern shoreline in association with southerly winds ( HR Wallingford, 1994 ).
Modifies a noun
- erosion: Simulations on over fifteen reef island settings found maximum shoreline erosion between three and thirty meters for a one meter increase in sea level.
- retreat: The expected sea-level rise will cause shortage of sediment in the coastal area, resulting in shoreline retreat.
- wave: Wavegen's Limpet, on the island of Islay is the first grid connected shoreline wave energy converter.
- management: Includes a brief overview of the shoreline management plans.
- plan: Includes a brief overview of the shoreline management plans.
- device: The new design offers a novel and complementary approach to shoreline devices that is completely unobtrusive and well protected.
Noun used with modifier
- shingle: Aldeburgh's memorial to Benjamin Britten was erected on an expanse of shingle shoreline in November 2003.
- island: Sample results of the STM modeling are presented in Figure 3. All simulations show that sea-level rise promotes physical changes in island shorelines.
- mile: With a 27 mile shoreline, Kielder Water is the largest man-made lake in Western Europe.
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