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Coastline in sentence

52 examples of Coastline in a sentence

So this is the place where some of the largest, the most violent storms in the world send huge waves smashing into the coastline.
But the great thing about imagining learning as cartography, instead of imagining it as arbitrary hurdles that you have to jump over, is that you see a bit of coastline, and that makes you want to see more.
In fact, with roughly 50% of the world's population living within 100 kilometers of the coastline and with most of the remainder living close enough to lakes, rivers, or swamps, all of which ultimately lead to the ocean, virtually every single person on the planet has the opportunity to influence the general health and nature of the world ocean.
It sounds audacious, but let's just stick it out there, that one day maybe we can rise up above a beach, fly up and down the coastline of it, rise up a bit higher, with some of the safety kit we're working on to make this achievable.
That looks like a coastline.
Neighboring villages saw the fishing boom and drew up their own closures, spreading the model virally along hundreds of miles of coastline.
Spurred on by rising catches, leaders from Andavadoaka joined force with two dozen neighboring communities to establish a vast conservation area along dozens of miles of coastline.
What's the length of the coastline of these lakes?
The concept of length of coastline, which seems to be so natural because it's given in many cases, is, in fact, complete fallacy; there's no such thing.
This is what happens when distributors try to seek a wider audience (ridiculous sweeping shots of the Rio coastline, etc) at the expense of a gripping story and characters.
"Whilst searching for ancient treasure on a lighthouse-island off the British coastline, an archaeological expedition becomes isolated from the mainland and is stalked by a monstrous assassin."
This is truly a great classic film starring Charles Laughton,( Sir Humphrey Pengallan) who is a ruthless ruler who heads a gang of thieves who look for shipwrecks along their coastline with many huge rocks and boulders.
The California coastline is a great backdrop for this love story.
This, in wartime blackout Britain, on a coastline facing enemy-occupied France, in waters regularly patrolled by German e-boats!
More than 2 billion of the world's 6 billion people live within 100 kilometers of a coastline, and so are vulnerable to ocean storms, flooding, and rising sea levels due to global warming.
Five hundred years ago, the Atlantic rainforest stretched nearly the entirety of Brazil’s 8,500-kilometer coastline; today, less than 7% remains.
Saudi Arabia has a long coastline on the Red Sea, as well as other unspoiled areas of natural beauty that could attract visitors.
This is a pity, because the UK is missing out on the opportunity to build offshore generating capacity along its long, windy coastline.
A few years ago, a lawyer for one of our competitors drew a picture of a coastline with a little island offshore.
In October 2013, Cyclone Phailin struck India’s Odisha coastline.
Entire sections of Africa’s coastline, including almost one-third of its coastal infrastructure, will be submerged.
The regional powers behind Assad’s regime include Iran and Russia, which has a naval base on Syria’s Mediterranean coastline.
It also has a lengthy coastline and a deepwater port, Berbera, which could help land-locked Ethiopia unlock even more economic growth.
Even as the UN issues stark warnings about an impending catastrophe in Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition is preparing an offensive to capture the coastline around the port of Hodeida – a move that the International Crisis Group has warned would aggravate Yemen’s humanitarian crisis.
Moreover, with nearly two-fifths of the world’s population living within 100 kilometers of a coastline, finding suitable seaside sites for initiation or expansion of a nuclear-power program is no longer easy.
But today the sun glints across the water to the Asian coastline of the city; the seagulls bank in the breeze; a great liner sails majestically north towards the Black Sea.
Somalia’s New PiratesMOGADISHU – Somalia is blessed with the largest coastline in continental Africa.
Despite having more than 4,500 miles (7,200 kilometers) of coastline, India has struggled to implement its planned expansion of nuclear power through seaside plants, owing to strong grassroots opposition.
Practically no urban lakefront, riverbank, coastline, or mountainside has not been threatened.
Libya’s vice president, Ahmed Maetig, has expressed hope for a similar agreement with his country to restrict the flow of migrants to Europe, despite the fact that the government does not control large parts of the coastline.
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