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• Christopher Columbus used to glance at caraccas waiting ashore when he was a young boy.From the entry caracca
• The remaining flotsam was washed ashore.From the entry wash
• They managed to haul out their motorboat by paying a local to drag it ashore with a line hitched to a truck.From the entry haul out
• She also reflected that a jumpy, wool-gathering wireless operator might cause less confusion ashore.2022, William J. Locke, Ancestor Jorico. From the entry wirelessless
• Inevitably, before long some arthropods began to drag themselves ashore to take advantage of these untapped resources.2015, Dave Goulson, A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm, Picador, →ISBN, pages 24-25. From the entry waterproof
• "We have just had a little run-round in the boat,” he explained, as they stepped ashore.2009, Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures. From the entry runround
• The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.2007, Barbara Everett, “Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances”, in London Review of Books, 29:6, page 21. From the entry coffin
• It was a lifecar like this one that brought the survivors, except Lydia Dale, safely ashore.2005, Frederick Stonehouse, Women and the Lakes II: More Untold Great Lakes Maritime Tales. From the entry lifecar
• Survivors then came ashore in either the lifecar or the breeches buoy.1991, Mariners Weather Log. From the entry lifecar
• Ashore they would have whipped thee through the streets at the cart’s tail.”1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8. From the entry beakhead
• It usually carries one person at a time, although two have frequently been brought ashore together.1911, Robert M. Ballantyne, Charles Dibdin and Alfred T. Thorson, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Life-boat and Life-saving Service. From the entry life car
• We make fun of a landlubber at sea, but he’s nothing to a sealubber ashore.1904, Henry Kitchell Webster, chapter VII, in Traitor and Loyalist; or, The Man Who Found His Country, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan…. From the entry sealubber
• They thought about pulling ashore to camp, however bloats of hippos, teams of crocks, and swarms of mozzies changed their minds.2026, Santiago Dizon, Joanne and the Headhunters. From the entry bloat
• The remora tightly attaches itself to a turtle, and the remora and its "catch" are then hauled ashore.2018, Dagmar Fertl, André M. Landry, “Remoras”, in Bernd Würsig, J. G. M. Thewissen, Kit M. Kovacs, editors, Encyclopedia of Marine…. From the entry remora
• This bad boy wasn't shy in letting us know either, as three of us struggled to pull it ashore.2016, Max Dickins, My Groupon Adventure, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry bad boy
• Peas likely came ashore in the New World with the earliest English and French explorers and spread along with the colonies.2011, Sheri Castle, The New Southern Garden Cookbook. From the entry garden pea
• Captive rowlocks keep the oars in the boat while you 're rowing and discourage lighthanded hardware seekers when you go ashore.1997 January, Time Carr, “Choosing A Dinghy -- The Hard Way”, in Cruising World. From the entry light-handed
• Newland, lead cook and a smart cookie, would find some way to feed them if they got stranded ashore.1992, Eugene B. Fluckey, Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II, University of Illinois Press…. From the entry smart cookie
• A human female starts to long for all her friends and relations ashore, and eventually forsakes her merhusband.1987, Michael F. Page, Robert R. Ingpen, Encyclopedia of things that never were: creatures, places, and people. From the entry merhusband
• Out here on the Pacific, there's no rush, no tension, none of the "hectivities" of everyday life ashore.1962 March 11, “A Day on a Luxury Liner, Cruising on a Sunlit Sea”, in Boston Globe. From the entry hectivity
• But soon they streamed ashore, fresh-faced young sailormen in small and large parties directed by ship's officers and Russian embassy guides.1953 June 22, “Great Britain: Two-way Scrutiny”, in Thomas Stanley Matthews, editor, Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry chorus
• Navy chow ashore is rarely as good as it is afloat, and for enlisted men it is usually much worse.1947, James Michener, “The Strike”, in Tales of the South Pacific, New York: Dial, published 2014, page 315. From the entry afloat
• "I was just going ashore to ring you up."1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 4. From the entry ring up
• Nick tossed the offal ashore for the minks to find.1925, Ernest Hemingway, “Big Two-Hearted River⁠ Part II”, in In Our Time. From the entry offal
• 'Swimming across the sea to Quemoy was not difficult at all,' said Li Yenhan, 22, from Tianjin , who was the first mainlander ashore.2009 August 15, Lawrence Chung, “Historic swim heralds warming strait relations”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry Quemoy
• The most obvious source for tracking pressed men is the muster books of the individual ships, for these encompass those impressed both afloat and ashore.2008, Nicholas Rogers, The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry pressed
• He decided that before scuttling the ship to prevent her falling into enemy hands he had to get the dead and wounded ashore.2007, Michael Mueller, Canaris: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster, Naval Institute Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry scuttle
• An unusual case cropped up when an American Liberty, the Josiah Nelson Cushing, ran ashore at Breaker Point near Swatow, while in ballast.1976, W. A. Doust, Peter Black, “Scrap into Skyscrapers”, in The Ocean on a Plank, London: Seely, Service & Co. Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 112. From the entry Breaker Point
• A disappointed observer might have noticed that they seemed harmless enough, just a brace of matloes ashore for a quiet Saturday afternoon potion.1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 24. From the entry matlo
• With one man always ashore on a month's relief, the select little company of four Nabmen are the chosen few of all Trinity House lightkeepers.1954, Britain To-day - Issues 213-224, page 146. From the entry nabman
• At Hulutao, cautious Admiral Barbey again refused to go ashore because a launch from his flagship was fired upon by several riflemen, supposedly Chinese communists.1946, George Moorad, Behind the Iron Curtain, Fireside Press, page 295. From the entry Yingkow
• At a press conference Wednesday, the center announced that a pig carcass was found to have drifted ashore in Kinmen's Jinhu Township on Sunday (April 7).2019 April 11, Keoni Everington, “3rd dead pig found on Kinmen shore tests positive for ASF”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original…. From the entry Jinhu
• Malta could offer no replacements, so that many submariners with a natural pride in their uniform did not 'go ashore' when they could, because they looked so unservicelike.2008, John Frayn Turner, Periscope Patrol: The Saga of the Malta Force Submarines. From the entry unservicelike
• All the liver brought ashore is being utilized and most of it is used for the production of cod liver oil for dietary supplementations (Table 12.4).2007, Kristberg Kristbergsson, Sigurjon Arason, “Utilization of By-Products in the Fish Industry”, in Vasso Oreopoulou, Winfried Russ…. From the entry cod liver
• Coming ashore, he joined the All-Maker and, together, when the sun was at the zenith and especially warm, they set about creating all sorts of things.1998, David Adams Leeming, “Corn Mother”, in Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero, 3rd edition, page 165. From the entry All-Maker
• All this would tend to make a free life on the ocean wave more tempting to the lotless sons of the peasantry than a toilsome existence ashore.1972, Vilhelm Moberg, History of the Swedish people, page 61. From the entry lotless
• But what's that got to do with it?” “Wilbert Cream dived in and saved him.” “He could have got ashore perfectly well under his own steam.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry watery grave
• Mariettans opened their hearts and homes to them and did everything humanly possible to make them comfortable and set the stage ashore for a successful regatta.1951 July 24, Allison Danzig, “Sports of The Times: Not So Charming Now”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry Mariettan

Meaning of ashore

1. adverb On the land as opposed to onboard.
2. adverb On, or towards the shore.

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How do you use ashore in a sentence?

Ashore is used as an adverb. For example: “The canoe sailed ashore.”

What is a short sentence with ashore?

“The canoe sailed ashore.”

What does ashore mean?

Ashore means on the land as opposed to onboard.