How to Use coast guard in a Sentence

coast guard

noun
  • Halfway back, the coast guard met them and two paramedics jumped aboard.
    — Nick Perry, Twin Cities, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Refugees have to be fished from the water by coast guards, miles from land.
    — Alexandra Wynne, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Dec. 2016
  • All night, the Libyan coast guard’s phones had gone unanswered.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
  • In just a decade, China has amassed the world’s largest coast guard fleet.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 20 June 2023
  • The coast guard was sending divers to help in the rescue efforts.
    — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The migrants picked up by the coast guard tended to face grisly fates.
    — Ian Urbina, The Atlantic, 6 May 2021
  • Tweets from the coast guard featured dramatic video of the fire.
    — oregonlive, 18 June 2022
  • The tour boat has since lost contact, according to the coast guard.
    — NBC News, 24 Apr. 2022
  • An Italian coast guard search that went through the night didn’t find any more survivors or corpses.
    — Time, 8 Jan. 2018
  • China has both the world’s largest navy, in terms of sheer ship numbers, as well as the world’s largest coast guard.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 8 July 2024
  • The ship had Chinese funding, the coast guard said in a statement.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Just off shore, the coast guard discovered the other bodies on the yacht.
    — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The teenagers were not injured in the incident, the coast guard said in a statement.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 8 July 2025
  • One of them told the coast guard that the ship capsized after an engine stopped and it was hit by a large wave.
    — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Newsweek reached out to Taiwan's coast guard with a request for comment by email.
    — Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Survivors told the coast guard that about 80 people had been on the vessel.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, ajc, 25 Dec. 2021
  • One crew member was missing, and the coast guard called off the search late Monday.
    — arkansasonline.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • One crew member was missing, and the coast guards called off the search late Monday.
    — CBS News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Evidence suggests that the Greek coast guard could have helped save them, but did not.
    — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The coast guard said the 10 victims — seven men and three women — were adults.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The anchor used to hold the floating barrier which was removed by the coast guard.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The coast guard said 16 of the bodies were young African women, while one was a young man.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Not even the island gangs operate boats anymore for fear of the Qin coast guard.
    — Hazlitt, 13 May 2025
  • Two Jet Skis and a coast guard vessel involved in the hunt returned to port.
    — Alastair Jamieson, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The ship reversed course and sent out a search crew who found her body with the help of the Japanese coast guard.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019
  • That’s what the league had really turned into — coast-to-coast guards who could play with pace and get into the paint.
    — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • The coast guard took the remaining crew members to Catanzaro.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Problematic The Cuban coast guard killed four men.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
  • McMichael says his team on the coast guard was required to undergo use-of-force training four times a year.
    — Bill Rankin, ajc, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Along with the coast guard who pulled me out of the water, along with the back doctor who gave me the ability to walk and run and stand.
    — Fox News, 9 June 2018

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