foreshore
noun
fore·shore
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Definition of foreshore
1
: a strip of land margining a body of water
2
: the part of a seashore between high-water and low-water marks
Examples of foreshore in a Sentence
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The group removed 23,000 wet wipes from one stretch of the Thames foreshore in just two hours in March -- enough to fill 473 bin bags. — Mark Tutton And Ed Scott-clarke, CNN, "How rivers became the plastic highway into the oceans," 24 June 2019 Thames21 is a group that organizes clean-ups along the foreshore of the River Thames, in the UK, and educates people to not pollute it. — Mark Tutton And Ed Scott-clarke, CNN, "How rivers became the plastic highway into the oceans," 24 June 2019 Barangaroo Reserve Sydney’s newest harbor foreshore park, Barangaroo Reserve offers views over Sydney Harbour Bridge, residential Balmain across the water, and on-the-up neighboring quarter Barangaroo. — Sophie Davies, Condé Nast Traveler, "16 Best Parks in Sydney," 20 Mar. 2018 This project would add 10,600 feet of foreshore rock dike along the eastern bank of the Freshwater Bayou Canal to prevent further erosion of the shoreline and adjacent marsh in Vermilion Parish. — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, "Coastal board recommends $20 million for parish coastal projects," 18 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'foreshore.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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