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sea wall

noun as in wall to hold out sea

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The children who choose to jump off Akka's sea wall seize the right to own their own fates.

Somebody who lives near the café then called him to say the water had risen over the sea wall.

And then she saw Florrie Bagster, on the other side of the street, walking leisurely by the sea-wall, alone.

On the near side, the sea-wall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse.

Elbows on the parapet of the sea-wall, they gaze out into the offing.

His house was upon a very high chalk rock, and a sea-wall of one-fifth the height would answer every purpose.

The estimate this gentleman made for the construction of a sea-wall—one that would stand—was ten thousand pounds.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sea wall, such as: barrier, breakwater, dike/dyke, embankment, jetty, and sea cliff.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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