From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishshorelineshore‧line /ˈʃɔːlaɪn $ ˈʃɔːr-/ noun [countable, uncountable] the land along the edge of a large area of water such as an ocean or lake the bay’s 13,000 km of shoreline
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shoreline• It is here that the road pulls you back to the pounding sea and a shoreline littered with huge driftwood logs.• Coast and shoreline classifications have usually had one of three bases, descriptive, numerical or genetic.• Her home consists of two battered green fishing boats tied together a few feet off a stretch of garbage-strewn Nile shoreline.• The reeds grow along a 50-mile stretch of shoreline.• Most mornings she liked to head up along the shoreline or follow one of the trails out toward the fire tower.• Then I must have collapsed at the shoreline.• There were a few wooden beach huts down by the shoreline.• The buildings started a whisker away from the shoreline.• Ducks and geese are stripping the shoreline of vegetation, triggering erosion that muddies the shallow lake. 