How to use shore in a sentence
40 example sentences · noun, verb
Shore means land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond. Example: “The seamen were serving on shore instead of on ships.”
Examples of shore by meaning
nounLand adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
- lake shore; bay shore; gulf shore; island shore; mainland shore; river shore; estuary shore; pond shore; sandy shore; rocky shore
nounLand, usually near a port.
- The seamen were serving on shore instead of on ships.
- The passengers signed up for shore tours.
nounA prop or strut supporting some structure or weight above it.
- The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.
verbNot followed by up: to provide (something) with support.
- As the mine progressed the roof was shored with timbers.1990, Christopher Gravett, Richard Hook, Medieval Siege Warfare, page 45
- Sometimes it's easier to laminate the strips one at a time, shoring each in place only long enough for the epoxy to set.1993, Jim Trefethen, Wooden Boat Renovation: New Life for Old Boats using Modern Methods, page 106
- These are called shored exit wounds.1999, Vincent J. M. Di Maio, Gunshot Wounds, page 94
verbUsually followed by up: to reinforce (something at risk of failure).
- My family shored me up after I failed the GED.
- The workers were shoring up the dock after part of it fell into the water.
More sentences with shore
- We could go to the shore next week, or somewhere else if that's not your speed.From the entry speed
- After we'd rowed for an hour, we found ourselves stranded ten fathoms from shore.From the entry fathom
- Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River.From the entry empty
- They sent four batteries southward in an attempt to shore up the defenses around the depot.From the entry battery
- The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.From the entry wave
- Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves.From the entry retire
- We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi River.From the entry snag
- The bees murmured in the forest. The waves murmured on the shore.From the entry murmur
- From the shore, they watched the disappearance of the ships' masts into the haze.From the entry disappearance
- They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence.From the entry shore up
- He needed something bold and dramatic to shore up his failing candidacy.From the entry shore up
- The rocks lay at about a mile's distance from the shore.From the entry -'s
- The wind impelled the kayaks toward the shore.From the entry impel
- The boat drifted away from the shore.From the entry drift
- The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.From the entry trend
- The plane went down thirty miles from shore.From the entry go down
- I witnessed the sinking of my ship from the shore.From the entry sinking
- A ship's weather shore is an island's lee shore.From the entry weather shore
- If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.From the entry dissever
- A strong undertow may sweep a returning swimmer off their feet but it does not carry them far from the shore.From the entry undertow
- The shore of Newfoundland displays many ophiolitic deposits.From the entry ophiolitic
- The ship is running in with the shore.From the entry run in with
- The wind kited us toward shore.From the entry kite
- There's lots of structure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.From the entry structure
- The locomotive can also be charged from shore power, making it essentially a bi-mode shunter.2025 February 19, “Network News: Hydrogen-powered Class 08 shunter unveiled”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 8, in a non-nautical context. From the entry shore power
- The corsair's galiots, lying at anchor off the shore, were rocking and swaying wildly in the storm.2024 April 26, Stephen Sturgess, The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice, Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry skirl
- Shore jumped in and got binked with an accidental elbow .2024, Juan Vidal, A Second Chance on Earth. From the entry bink
- More people, a few hundred, perhaps, had gathered along the shore.2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August…. From the entry e
- Previously, two other pigs with swine fever virus had drifted onto the shores of Kinmen.2019 March 18, Olivia Li, “Another Dead Pig That Drifted Ashore in Taiwan Found to Have African Swine Fever”, in The Epoch Times, archived…. From the entry Chukuang
- I run to shore, trying to keep the tentacles off me, but it's too big and strong.2018, TW Neal, Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii. From the entry sucker
- As we scan the Gaelian shore we see large side-necked turtles sunning themselves.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 29. From the entry side-necked turtle
Meaning of shore
- noun Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
- noun Land, usually near a port.
- verb To arrive at the shore.
Questions about shore in a sentence
- How do you use shore in a sentence?
- Shore is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The seamen were serving on shore instead of on ships.”
- What is a short sentence with shore?
- “The wind kited us toward shore.”
- What does shore mean?
- Shore means land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
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