raised beach

noun

1. a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level

Example Sentences

Beach dunes flattened by earlier storms allowed storm surge to reach beneath some of Galveston’s raised beach houses.

From Washington Times

And beach dunes flattened by Hurricane Laura in August and Tropical Storm Beta last month allowed storm surge to reach beneath the raised beach houses in Galveston’s West End.

From Washington Times

Perhaps that was why I kept returning to Hugh MacDiarmid’s great 1934 poem, ‘On a Raised Beach’, which explores the limitations of science in expressing the wholeness of nature.

From Nature

Peanmeanach is located on a raised beach on a rugged headland.

From BBC

"It's in its own little raised beach. There is just something about it. "It has all of the best west coast magic.

From BBC