Example sentences for: ashore

How can you use “ashore” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In a random browse through the book jerry-built caught my eye, mainly because, recalling it as a reference to buildings ashore, I was surprised to find it among nautical words.

  • Bret spawned winds as high as 140 mph but was itself rather slow, heading north and then northwest across the Gulf of Mexico at 7 mph before coming ashore about 6 p.m. local time in Kenedy County, population 420.

  • The name La Ropa (“the Clothing”) was given to the beach where the silk later washed ashore.

  • The problem—and it is a serious one— is that there are, indeed, many words and phrases that originated at sea and were brought ashore for ready embodiment in everyday speech, but to find the same terms in both does not justify the assertion that the sea term came first.

  • Oceanographers predict where and when goods lost at sea will wash ashore.


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