What is "shorelines"

Usage examples of "shorelines".

Waves five to ten miles in height were thrown against the continents, surging over shorelines with a destructive power that was awesome in magnitude.

In time, sea levels stabilized, permitting new shorelines to form as bizarre climatic conditions continued to moderate.

Unlike the more advanced Bronze Age peoples who tended to cluster and build on low-lying plains near rivers and ocean shorelines, the inhabitants of the mountains were Stone Age nomads.

Why had the ancients, who otherwise calculated the shorelines with such exactness, have placed the continents so far off their established locations in relation to the circumference of the earth?

Waves thousands of feet in height were thrown against the continents, surging over shorelines with a destructive power that was awesome in magnitude.

Waves thousands of feet in height were thrown against the continents, surging over shorelines with a destructive power that was awesome in magnitude.

I'm counting on you gentlemen to come up with a viable program to cut the flow of aliens, particularly the Chinese who are being smuggled across our shorelines in vast numbers.

The egrets and herons that walked silently along the shorelines, their long, curved beaks dipping into the silt for food, were the first to sense something not of their world moving toward them out of the night.

Summer thawing of rivers and shorelines is facilitated by the planet's network of subterranean hot springs, which to some extent warm the surface water, which becomes warmer as it deepens, preventing all but the shallower streams from freezing to their total depth.

His eyes continually moved between the two shorelines, looking for signs of human habitation—or human ambush.