How to Use coquina in a Sentence

coquina

noun
  • Search the shore for colorful coquinas and the occasional piece of sea glass, especially at low tide.
    — Heema Patel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Early risers will beat beachgoers to find coquinas, false angel wings, conch, murexes, scallops, tulip shells, and more.
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 17 May 2026
  • The upper story is covered in wooden clapboards while the ground floor features coquina limestone masonry walls and seashell tabby flooring.
    — Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
  • Built with thick walls of coquina, the Castillo remains the oldest masonry fortification in the continental United States.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • At the heart of the property stands the 205-foot Singing Tower, a pink-and-gray structure made of marble and coquina and completed in 1929 by philanthropist Edward Bok, the longtime editor of Ladies' Home Journal.
    — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
  • What Makes Its Beach Unique Washington Oaks Gardens State Park is on the shores of a coquina rock beach, the second largest outcropping of visible limestone shoreline in Florida (the first is Blowing Rocks Preserve in Jupiter).
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 30 June 2026
  • Located approximately 50 miles north of West Palm Beach, the areas close to Coral Cove Park, Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge, and Jupiter Island Country Park are home to lion's paws, sand dollars, and coquinas.
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 17 May 2026

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