coastwise

How To Use coastwise In A Sentence

• The fishes of this age were able enough coastwise swimmers.
• San Pedro Bay, the terminus for two major coastwise shipping lanes, is full of commercial and military traffic day and night.
• Besides their primage they owned shares in their vessels, a thirty-second or so, and presently their settlement at the end of a voyage coastwise amounted to an income of a thousand dollars a month. Modern American Prose Selections
• Additional sailing flats were brought on to the river, wharfage was leased, and during the remaining months of 1827 some traffic that normally went by canal was sent coastwise.
• Firebricks from Buckley were the biggest single commodity carried coastwise from Chester to Liverpool, but they were shipped from downstream wharves, not from Chester city itself.
• we were travelling coastwise
• These were put in brackish water near Martinez, from which point they began a coastwise migration.
• The 1934 strike produced a single, coastwise agreement, in which dockworkers from San Diego to Seattle act as one.
• San Pedro Bay, the terminus for two major coastwise shipping lanes, is full of commercial and military traffic day and night.
• Another reason for the relative decline in barley sent coastwise was the emergence of Berwick and several other towns in the borders as centres of the brewing industry.