Woman crosses Loire zigzagging towards northern coast

Usage examples of shoreline.

In 2000 the team that pinpointed the ancient shoreline near Sinope found a shipwreck from late antiquity in 320 metres of water, its wonderfully preserved hull an indication of the archaeological marvels that may lie elsewhere in the anoxic depths of the sea.

During this period numerous caves were located and excavated, Pleistocene-age river terraces and sand dunes were surveyed and tested for archeological remains, fossil shorelines of lakes were examined, and thick deposits of windblown silt, or loess, deposited during the Pleistocene were searched for evidence of former human activity.

I was glad to spot a school of them herding baitfish as Abbey and I motored up the shoreline.

A shoreline of fine white sand, dotted here and there with patches of tall grass that eventually, near the shifting mists of gray leading to Beyond, died out completely, leaving a beachline as stark and bare as a picked bone.

Ariadne sat Calliste down against a tall, thick oak and started giving orders for a fire to be made, water to be found, the shoreline to be scoured for anything of use that had been washed ashore.

The shoreline was thick with the dying and the already dead, with pools of moonlight and eelgrass and the sorrowful sound of the thrush, waking in their nests.

Viridis, they watched the harbor on which Emeraude was located shrink and blend into the rest of the shoreline behind them.

Using the twenty-power sight, I scanned the gulleys leading down between the Flatirons to the swamps and shoreline.

Seeking to destroy an entire nation which was strong against his Lord, he tore a great island from its roots and hurled it into their land with such force that what had been a shoreline was crushed and buckled and thrust high into the air to become the Karpas Mountains.

I returned from a long walk along the shoreline, Nickles tottered down the hill looking like death warmed over.

The monster reached the shoreline, and any question of its ability to navigate a nonaquatic environment war.

We slept together in the same tent at night as we followed a string of lakes, strung like a rosary, through the thick, humming forests where black bears hustled their cubs away from the shoreline when our canoe appeared and moose observed us as calmly as philatelists when we moved past their quiet foraging in deep water.

An early experiment with public housing for war veterans left its shoreline marred by cul-de-sac housing developments the color of pumice, each one a collection of four buildings housing sixteen units and curved in on each other in a horseshoe, skeletal metal clothesline structures rising out of pools of rust in the cracked tar.

Finally Tiggens produced some of his pictures of the Shellback shoreline patterns of movement.

Grey, weathered stumps marked mooring poles and more substantial piers just beyond what had once been the shoreline, along with remnants of the usual garbage that had once been dumped over the sides of ships.