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Plural of shoreline

regular plural

The plural of shoreline is shorelines.

Forms of shoreline

Singularshoreline
Pluralshorelines
Countablecountable

Shorelines in a sentence

  • Rotifers also are present in the psammon, the sandy habitat along the wet reaches of shorelines.2014, James H. Thorp, D. Christopher Rogers, Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Ecology and General Biology. From the entry psammon
  • Shorelines are molded into smooth arcuate bays interrupted by cuspate horns.1999 April 2, B. T. Werner, “Complexity in Natural Landform Patterns”, in Science, volume 284, number 5411, →DOI, pages 102–104. From the entry cuspate
  • They are held together by surrounding shorelines and a weave of slowly deteriorating plant materials and living roots.2007, Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales 2007-2012, Western Planning Area Sales 204, 207, 210, 215, and 218, Central Planning Area…. From the entry flotant
  • Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to "undrown" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent.1971, George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff, Landforms, page 143. From the entry uplift
  • As seen elsewhere in the North Sea, transgression continued in the Late Jurassic, causing shorelines to backstep, with coeval deposition of the Heno Formation clastics and Lola Formation claystones.2009, Kw Glennie, Petroleum Geology of the North Sea: Basic Concepts and Recent Advances. From the entry backstep

Meaning of shoreline

  1. noun The divide between land and a body of water.
  2. noun The line on a map that illustrates this.

Full definition of shoreline

Questions about the plural of shoreline

What is the plural of shoreline?
The plural of shoreline is shorelines.
Is shoreline countable?
Shoreline is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoreline (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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