coast
/koʊst/ verb B1- To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power. · When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.
- To sail along a coast.
- To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort.
He/she/it coasts · Past coasted · Past participle coasted · -ing form coasting
Verb forms
- Base form
- coast
- He/she/it
- coasts
- Past
- coasted
- Past participle
- coasted
- -ing form
- coasting
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“I was a boy in my teens at the time of my father’s death and had never seen the Hall, for he lived in a little cottage on the South Coast.
As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent tempest arose in which the ship was wrecked and he, his Monkey, and all the crew were obliged to swim for their lives.
Already Dantès had visited this maritime Bourse two or three times, and seeing all these hardy free-traders, who supplied the whole coast for nearly two hundred leagues in extent, he had asked himself what power might not that man attain who should give the impulse of his will to all these contrary and diverging minds.
It was necessary to find some neutral ground on which an exchange could be made, and then to try and land these goods on the coast of France.
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