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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foreshore
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cardiff foreshore turned up a few conger and codling.
▪ Something seemed to have excited them, they'd found something on the foreshore.
▪ The foreshore was dark as pitch, but the corner street lamps palely illuminated the deck of Maurice.
▪ There, stretching from the foreshore to the Wall, was a solid line of soldiers.
▪ They had enjoyed each other's company over the last hour, hacking along the foreshore of the estuary.
▪ This Grade 2 Listed Building is set in a rocky cliff face pointing out to sea a little way along the foreshore.
▪ When the break in the dull, rainy weather came I decided on a day's search of the river foreshore.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
foreshore

foreshore \foreshore\ n. the part of the seashore between the high-water and and low-water marks.

Wiktionary
foreshore

n. The part of a shore between high water and low water, especially the beach exposed at maximum ebb spring tides.

WordNet
foreshore

n. the part of the seashore between the high-water mark and the low-water mark

Usage examples of "foreshore".

Scarcely any place was willing to contemplate the prospect of a sea-tank trapped on its foreshore, but still capable of throwing out coelenterates for an unknown length of time, nor did even Bocker have any theories on the location of traps beyond the construction of enormous numbers of them on a hit-or-miss basis.

The next day the Koepangers and Ahmed began work on the unopened shell before they went off to the foreshore camp.

There was some perceived insult, shouted words, then the Japanese had chased the Koepangers along the foreshore.

There was the story of the Japanese cemetery where so many divers ended their days, pictures of Chinatown with its dim shops and seedy opium dens, a famous Indian pearl cleaner who was known for his precise skill in stripping away the rough outer layers of valuable pearls, the horse-drawn train that ran along the wharf, the shanty township with beached luggers on the foreshore at Dampier Creek.

They rode down to Corinth, up to Thebes, looked at the marshy foreshores of Lake Orchomenus where Sulla had won the two decisive battles against the armies of Mithridates, explored the tracks which had enabled Cato the Censor to circumvent the enemy at Thermopylae-and the enemy to circumvent the last stand of Leonidas.

Not to buzz and turd my subjects into disaffection, I bumped in turn Hippolochus, Isander, and Laodamia, each time reclimbing to a lower peak, like waves on a foreshore as the tide runs out.

A line of Naval patrol boats - ML's and MTB's - were moored close to the foreshore and there was a destroyer and two corvettes at anchor.