How to Use seaboard in a Sentence

seaboard

noun
  • He lives on the eastern seaboard.
  • There's a great white shark making his rounds along the Atlantic seaboard.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • American eels live out their lives — which can be more than a decade — just off the eastern seaboard.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Both areas were hit by heavy snowstorms that moved east to the Atlantic seaboard.
    — Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • The idea hasn't died out, and many a jet-blower is still in use today, many along the America's eastern seaboard.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2016
  • 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
  • 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
  • Depending in part on zombie Jose, Maria could spin out to sea -- or into the eastern seaboard.
    — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Disney considered putting the theme park along the Eastern seaboard in New York state.
    — al, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Of course, blues seldom top five pounds in the Gulf, while 20 pound fish are common on the Eastern seaboard.
    — AL.com, 23 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • When China opened its economy in the 1980s, its seaboard reaped the biggest gains.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • This saw its three-ship task group traveling from the Australian eastern seaboard to the western seaboard via the southern waters.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Eastern seaboard as well as places like Latin America, Asia and Europe.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Those are dialects spoken by people in Shanghai or in the nearby southeastern seaboard or in the south of the country.
    — Didi Kirsten Tatlow, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2016
  • Overall, there will be nine Stakes races among the fourteen races on the card with horses from all over the country making there way to this oval on the eastern seaboard.
    — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • 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
  • The Northeastern seaboard of the United States is passionate about their choice of coffee chains!
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The bar and lounge's menu was inspired by ports all over the world and features flavors and dishes from the Mediterranean, Asia and the eastern seaboard.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • In 1957, the group performed at Carnegie Hall, on a bill featuring the best singing groups on the eastern seaboard.
    — Mickey Rapkin, GQ, 2 Nov. 2017
  • For many, the lasting image of the bicentennial was the arrival of the Tall Ships in ports up and down the eastern seaboard.
    — John Garrison Marks, Smithsonian, 3 July 2018
  • Southwestern states, the Gulf Coast, and much of the eastern seaboard are expected to be drier than average.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trump has fought tooth and nail in court to suspend wind energy projects that are fully permitted, under contract and under construction across the eastern seaboard.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026

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