COAST in a Sentence

Learn COAST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
127 example sentences for COAST, such as:
1. It's a pleasant drive to the coast.
2. The land is barren on the east coast.
3. They live in a town along the east coast.
4. He's gone on through the state to the coast.
5. He lived on the east coast of the United States.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of COAST
coast
 n.  the shore of a sea or ocean
 n.  the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1  "I guess this'll be their last coast for a day or two," Ethan said, looking up at the mild sky.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  On the coast, life had mellowed--here it was young and lusty and new.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Scarlett never discovered just what business brought him to Atlanta, for few other blockaders found it necessary to come so far away from the coast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Reared in Charleston, he knew every inlet, creek, shoal and rock of the Carolina coast near that port, and he was equally at home in the waters around Wilmington.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  From time immemorial, the coast cities had dominated the South, commercially and otherwise.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  He's gone on through the state to the coast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
8  In olden times an eagle swooped down upon the New England coast, and carried off an infant Indian in his talons.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
9  Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
10  He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
11  In his youth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped on board of a whaler, lying in a lonely bay on his native coast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
12  The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after bartering away the vessel in which he sailed from home.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
13  I am told, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
14  Probably the mother during an important interval was sailing down the Peruvian coast, when earthquakes caused the beach to gape.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
15  I boarded her once at midnight somewhere off the Patagonian coast, and drank good flip down in the forecastle.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  The pipeline was constructed to transport oil across Alaska to ports on the coast.
2  Intelligence reported enemy activity just off the coast.
3  And now myriads of bars and hotels are opening up along the coast.
4  The Asian countries along the coast of the Pacific all came out against the US new military base in Japan.
5  On the west coast, the temperature changes very little between summer and winier.
6  Yeah, it was kind of a freakish accident over on the coast when they were over there.
7  Camp sites are usually situated along the coast, close to beaches.
8  It's a pleasant drive to the coast.
9  The land is barren on the east coast.
10  I was warned against/off going to the east coast because it was so full of tourists.
11  He lived on the east coast of the United States.
12  They live in a town along the east coast.
13  Most of the east coast remains mercifully untouched by tourism.
14  Rimini is a thriving holiday resort on the east coast of Italy.
15  The fleet is - ring off the east coast.