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beachlike

beachlike \beach"like`\ adj. having an extensive gently sloping area of sand or gravel; -- of a shore or shoreline. Opposite of cliffy. [Narrower terms: gravelly, pebbly, shingly]

Syn: beachy.

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beachlike

a. Resembling a beach or some aspect of one.

WordNet
beachlike

adj. (of a shore or shoreline) having an extensive gently sloping area covered with sand or gravel or shingle down to the water line [syn: beachy] [ant: cliffy]

Usage examples of "beachlike".

It was not a placid, beachlike rising of the tide accompanied by rolling breakers, but an angry, boiling wall of foam, flailing the land ahead with wreckage, debris, and pieces of uprooted trees as it advanced, while behind, the ocean rose and heaved in impatiently jostling hills of water and wind.

It was not a placid, beachlike rising of the tide ­accompanied by rolling breakers, but an angry, boiling wall of foam, flailing the land ahead with wreckage, debris, and pieces of uprooted trees as it advanced, while behind, the ocean rose and heaved in impatiently jostling hills of water and wind.

Lifting a weak arm, Chup pointed to the distant beachlike place, where people were being cared for by tall inhuman figures.