How to Use seawall in a Sentence

seawall

noun
  • The water rushed over the seawalls and swept toward the plant.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
  • Next to the street is a staircase that leads to a walkway that hugs a seawall.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Use the bluff-top concrete path, or walk along the lower seawall.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Of course there will be lines of defense, such as seawalls, and sandbags.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Try along seawalls, and near docks, and drift with crickets for steady action.
    — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2018
  • Along the seawall at dawn, over the Granville bridge, past women half my age.
    — Hazlitt, 13 Nov. 2024
  • No dogs are allowed on the lower seawall.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Pause at the seawall along the way and watch for seals splashing around in the lagoon inlet.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
  • Use crickets and redworms near docks and seawalls for bluegills, bream and warmouth.
    — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 July 2018
  • The coat was extended to her from atop a seawall in a frenzied attempt to save her.
    — Robert Allen, Detroit Free Press, 18 Apr. 2017
  • One of the most direct solutions for a coastal city is to construct a seawall.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2017
  • The work included building a massive rock seawall at the foot of the slide.
    — Fox News, 1 May 2018
  • Staff removed a portion of seawall and built an earthen ramp to the water’s edge.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 14 July 2021
  • One woman, drink in hand, sat at the edge of the seawall, getting pummeled by waves that crashed over her head.
    — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The last wave that topped the existing seawalls cleared them by two to five inches, Stein said.
    — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The flotilla will stop off the Havana Malecón seawall.
    — Sarah Moreno march 16, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Many spent Wednesday boarding up windows, and crews did last-minute checks on the seawalls.
    — CBS News, 7 Jan. 2018
  • That includes the seawall itself.
    — Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 27 May 2026
  • The woman eats from a foam container and chats with the little girl sitting on the seawall.
    — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
  • To remove the weed, engineers built a seawall and flooded the wetland to drown the grass.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Shore said the aging seawall is long overdue for reassessment.
    — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2026
  • Hotel guests can lounge by the pool, book a massage at the spa, or ride one of the hotel beach cruisers along the seawall.
    — Jennifer Simonson, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2022
  • The idea of painting the back of the seawall to showcase the area’s marine habitat was floated as well.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Part of the seawall by the pier was washed out, as was a section of the road on the east tip of the island, Cozzie said.
    — Kathryn Varn, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Locals gather around fires near the seawall or hike to the ruins of Sutro Baths.
    — Becca Blond, AFAR Media, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The massive seawall that helped blunt the damage to town was reordered elsewhere along the coastline.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Most notably, a seawall was built 500 feet out into the lake and filled with sand to form the present-day park.
    — NOLA.com, 16 June 2017
  • The stone seawall that Hoffa built by hand with his son James, remains as strong as ever.
    — Eric Shawn, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2025
  • The city just finished a year-long improvement project to the seawall, adding 2 feet in height to help with flooding.
    — Staff Report, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • In an aerial video released by the group, the whale could be seen very close to a seawall near one of Barcelona's main beaches.
    — Mike Fuller, Star Tribune, 10 May 2021

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