ashore

IPA: ʌʃˈɔr

adverb

  • (nautical) On the land as opposed to onboard.
  • (nautical) On, or towards the shore.
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Examples of "ashore" in Sentences

  • When I sail, they sail; when I remain ashore, they remain ashore.
  • And ... that's all; I put my eggs ashore from the boat at Dawson.
  • Daughtry even encouraged this exchange of facial amenities for the purpose of deterring him from ever hoping to win ashore to the village of his birth.
  • It began to happen when six men came ashore from the Search, with heavy outfits, as though they had come to stay, and quartered themselves in Neegah's igloo.
  • The last Saturday night in September, Timothy Farris shut down his Godfather's Pizza restaurant here in this small Gulf Coast beach town, a victim, he says, of the dismal tourist slump that accompanied oil and tar balls washing ashore from the giant BP spill.
  • Joan was standing up in the stern-sheets, reiterating her good-byes -- a slim figure of a woman in the tight-fitting jacket she had worn ashore from the wreck, the long-barrelled Colt's revolver hanging from the loose belt around her waist, her clear-cut face like a boy's under the Stetson hat that failed to conceal the heavy masses of hair beneath.

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