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Coastline in sentence

52 examples of Coastline in a sentence

But, as high-definition images of oil spewing from the bottom of the ocean are matched up with those of blackened coastline and devastated wildlife, a very different story could emerge.
Its coastline, after all, is longer than that of, say, the United Kingdom or India.
A 20-foot rise in sea levels (which, not incidentally, is about ten times more than the United Nations climate panel’s worst-case expectations) would inundate about 16,000 square miles of coastline, where more than 400 million people currently live.
Forest fires had run amok, spreading toward the heavily built-up coastline, cutting the settlement of Mati and the town of Rafina off from Athens and forcing residents to flee toward the sea.
But 26 other people, who had come very close to the same coastline, succumbed to the smoke and flames before they could reach the water.
Five days later, the North launched four ballistic missiles, one of which reportedly landed within 200 miles of Japan’s coastline.
It lies close to Israel’s Leviathan gas field, whose name gives an idea of how much energy lies beneath the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and it is also not very far from the Egyptian coastline, where Shell already has three major projects.
Will Brazil really risk its spectacular coastline for oil, now that everyone has been reminded of what can happen?
An AFC-led consortium is financing a project that will develop Sub-Saharan Africa’s first deep-sea container port on the Atlantic coastline area of Olokola, Nigeria.
Southwest India’s Kerala coastline is dotted with Chinese-style fishing nets, and the favorite cooking pot of the Malayali housewife is the wok, locally called the cheen-chetti (Chinese vessel).
Bangladesh is usually heard about only when cyclones and tsunamis ravage its low coastline, but the country’s relatively anonymous international stature belies its strategic importance.
State legislators responded by passing a bill that prohibited policymakers from using the panel’s findings, thereby undermining officials’ ability to fulfill their fundamental duty to protect their state’s coastline, resources, and citizens.
Among the large continental countries, including India and Brazil, only China has a small segment of coastline but vast interior regions.
To back up its territorial claim, China relies on a map inherited from the Nationalist period – the so-called “nine-dashed line,” which extends nearly a thousand miles south of mainland China and sometimes as close as 40 or 50 miles from the coastline of states like Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.
In October, an extraordinary “superstorm” smashed into the Atlantic coastline around New Jersey, causing losses of around $60 billion.
The same goes for wind energy, owing to our long coastline and sprawling interior.
Given Chile’s extensive coastline, the possibilities are much likely orders of magnitude higher.
I could clearly distinguish the tilled soil on its outskirts, the various mountain chains running parallel with its coastline, and its volcanoes, crowned by Mauna Kea, whose elevation is 5,000 meters above sea level.
Two miles to starboard lay Gueboroa Island, its coastline curving north to west like an immense arm.
"That flat coastline curving southward is the coast of Egypt."
Its coastline looked flat, but high mountains rose in the distance.
So not without good reason, I assumed that these two islands, plus the many islets surrounding them, used to be part of the Magellan coastline.
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