seabeach

American  

[see-beech] / ˈsiˌbitʃ /

noun

1. a beach lying along a sea or ocean.

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Etymology

Origin of seabeach

First recorded in 1765–75; sea + beach

Example Sentences

At less than a gunshot from where I stood was as plainly defined a seabeach as one could wish to see.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Bierce, Ambrose

They had evidently been formed in past ages, by the action of some continental stream or seabeach, before the great island of Borneo had risen from the ocean.

From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Wallace, Alfred Russel

"Sandy islands rose in front of us like a seabeach, and on the right towered a long row of cliffs white and glistening, like the cliffs of Dover."

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)

Guardian of the seabeach, to thee I send these cakes, and the gifts of a scanty sacrifice; for to-morrow I shall cross the broad wave of the Ionian sea, hastening to our Eidothea's arms.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)

At day break, on the bleak seabeach,       A fisherman stood aghast,     To see the form of a maiden fair       Lashed close to a drifting mast.

From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes