coast
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Synonyms & Antonyms for coast
Synonyms: Verb
bowl, breeze, brush, cruise, drift, flow, glide, roll, sail, skim, slide, slip, stream, sweep, whisk
Antonyms: Verb
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Examples of coast in a Sentence
Noun
He lives on the coast. He's flying out to the Coast tomorrow.Verb
The car coasted to a stop. The airplane coasted down the runway. The children coasted on sleds down the snowy hill. They came coasting down the hill on bicycles. After taking a big lead, the team coasted to victory. He was accused of trying to coast through school. She decided she could coast along without a job for the next few months. The company is coasting on its good reputation.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
In Fort Lauderdale, along the South Florida coast, gas stations were empty, stores were sold out of water, and grocery shelves were barren. — Washington Post, "Floridaâs Atlantic Coast is preparing for a direct hit from Hurricane Dorian," 30 Aug. 2019 Florida has not yet issued any evacuation orders to citizens along the coast, but 26 counties remain under a state of emergency. — Chris Morris, Fortune, "Dorian Now 1 mph Shy of Being a âMajor Hurricaneâ as Storm Inches Towards Florida," 30 Aug. 2019 Landfall could happen anywhere along Florida's Atlantic coast, Parkinson reports. — CBS News, "Dorian may be "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane when it makes landfall -- live updates," 29 Aug. 2019 All residents, especially those along the east coast, need to be prepared for possible impacts. — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, "Hurricane Dorian could hit Florida as âextremely dangerousâ Category 4 storm," 29 Aug. 2019 All residents, especially those along the east coast, need to be prepared for possible impacts. — NBC News, "Florida gets ready for potential category 4 hurricane as Dorian rages closer," 29 Aug. 2019 The latest forecast cone shows the storm making landfall near somewhere along the Florida coast. — Htv National Desk, Houston Chronicle, "Dorian could become Category 3 hurricane, make landfall in Florida," 28 Aug. 2019 But further north along the Mediterranean coast, mollusks do show up at other sites from the same period. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Neanderthals suffered from a veritable epidemic of swimmerâs ear," 19 Aug. 2019 The area only has a 20 percent chance of development over the next five days and is expected to move northeast, along the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas. — sun-sentinel.com, "Hurricane Center eyes low pressure area in the Gulf of Mexico," 17 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Biden has coasted, holding roughly a third of the electorate in the polls. — Tara Golshan, Vox, "Barack Obama was Joe Bidenâs guardian angel at the Democratic debate," 1 Aug. 2019 The surge of freshwater, for example, has killed sea porpoises and turtles and created a toxic algal bloom along the stateâs gulf coast some 300 miles away, closing all the beaches. — Rory Doyle, New York Times, "Where Floods of âBiblical Proportionâ Drowned Towns and Farms," 30 July 2019 The probes would then coast to Alpha Centauri, more than four light years away. — Elijah Wolfson, Time, "Lightsail 2's Successful Deployment Makes it the First Steerable Spacecraft Powered by the Sun," 26 July 2019 Armstrong coasted at the edge of space nearly 40 miles south of the test base, nearly reaching Pasadena before his plane finally regained aerodynamic control. — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, "How Neil Armstrong earned the moon landingâs lead role: Apollo 11 at 50," 16 July 2019 The entire company would coast off the fortune of its eccentric billionaire co-founder. — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, "Elon Musk wanted The Onion; he got Thud," 2 July 2019 But by mid-afternoon, Webberâs stationary craft was somewhat of an oddity on the river, as sailers from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology coasted about in the distance. — Alison Kuznitz, BostonGlobe.com, "Anchored on the Charles, awaiting the big show," 3 July 2019 The aforementioned men saw their crimes aired publicly over the past couple years, while Brown has been coasting (albeit bumpily) on sympathy and apologies for more than a decade. — John Wenzel, The Know, "Commentary: Chris Brown headlining Summer Jam is a stain on Denver," 13 June 2019 Colby Covington coasted to a unanimous decision victory over Robbie Lawler in the 170-pound main event fight of a rare Saturday afternoon UFC card at Prudential Center in Newark. — BostonGlobe.com, "Draymond Green gets $100m extension from Warriors," 3 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'coast.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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