How to Use seaboard in a Sentence

seaboard

noun
  • He lives on the eastern seaboard.
  • Error 0: The white sharks tend to feed along the eastern seaboard.
    Danny Hermosillo, Houston Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Mine came at 18, in southwest France heading to surf the storied seaboard of the Pays Basque.
    Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, 2 Aug. 2019
  • There's a great white shark making his rounds along the Atlantic seaboard.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • Both areas were hit by heavy snowstorms that moved east to the Atlantic seaboard.
    Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2022
  • But consider a curvy path like I-95, which wends and winds its way along the Eastern seaboard.
    Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2018
  • The seaboard of the cape has a higher concentration of salt than any other place on the East Coast.
    Anthony Haden-Guest, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Max’s franks at a time when the Coney Island brand Nathan’s was taking over the beaches along the Eastern seaboard.
    Adam Reiner, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • When China opened its economy in the 1980s, its seaboard reaped the biggest gains.
    The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • Disney considered putting the theme park along the Eastern seaboard in New York state.
    al, 2 Feb. 2020
  • There might be no better place in the world to stuff your face with an ocean’s worth of crustaceans than this blowout on the North Atlantic seaboard.
    Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 4 Jan. 2023
  • And for those who rue the industrialization of the seaboard?
    Elizabeth Royte, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The internet was out across the entire eastern seaboard.
    Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Either way, breezy winds, rough surf and perhaps even some minor coastal flooding is in the cards for the Eastern seaboard.
    Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 15 May 2020
  • Heavy rain, flooding and high winds could batter much of the East Coast this week as the system is forecast to track up or just off the Atlantic seaboard.
    Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2020
  • That was when colonists on the eastern seaboard sought to end their subordination to the British monarchy.
    Daniel Immerwahr, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • Heavy rain, flooding, and high winds could batter much of the East Coast this week as the system is forecast to track up or just off the Atlantic seaboard.
    Wilfredo Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2020
  • Since first being tagged in Nova Scotia, Ironbound has made his way up and down the eastern seaboard.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2022
  • The Northeastern seaboard of the United States is passionate about their choice of coffee chains!
    Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Arguably one of the crown jewel properties of the Eastern seaboard, the Ocean House is the embodiment of summer, the verb.
    Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 8 Mar. 2019
  • At least 50 people were killed across six states as the remnants of Hurricane Ida brought record rainfall to the Eastern seaboard.
    Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Bow your heads for a moment and give a shout-out to Tex Schramm, who insisted that the new team from Texas should play in a division on the Eastern seaboard.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The eastern seaboard is predicted to get hit the hardest, with rising seas up to 14 inches in some areas.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Lee will bring high surf and dangerous rip currents to the U.S. as early as Sunday in the south, then up the eastern seaboard into next week.
    Erin McGarry, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The storm will be especially strong, Berardelli said, because of a storm in the Great Lakes and a storm that's moving up the eastern seaboard.
    Victoria Albert, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2019
  • And yet, as of Thursday morning, cars continued to snake around gas stations up and down the Eastern seaboard, waiting their turn to fill up at the tank.
    Aarian Marshall, Wired, 13 May 2021
  • National forests are more prevalent in the western half of the country, but there are a few scattered in the upper Midwest and along the Eastern seaboard.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The company has stores across the country, but is prolific in the Midwest, along the Atlantic seaboard and in the South outside of Florida.
    Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2022
  • After Tuesday, the heat will continue to move toward the eastern seaboard.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 20 June 2022
  • The Eastern seaboard once again lays claim to the majority of the islands T+L readers voted as their favorites.
    Rebecca Ascher-Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020

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