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Examples of ashore in a Sentence
We docked our boat and went ashore to visit the island.
the seashells that wash ashore after a storm
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Key highlights of the exercise included joint training in outlying island defense scenarios, with enhanced focus on expeditionary advanced base operations—referring to the use of mobile forces from austere, temporary locations ashore or inshore in a maritime area.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Four years since the 2020 election, that wave of progressive prosecutors has crashed ashore.
—Eric Levenson, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
The last time a series of oarfish came ashore in California and other parts of the world was over several months in 2013 and 2014.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
The chic seafood kitchen takes its moniker from the scientific name for the Loggerhead sea turtle, which comes ashore on South Florida beaches on summer nights, laying eggs in sandpits before returning to the sea.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1536, in the meaning defined above
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“Ashore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ashore. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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ashore
adverb
ə-ˈshō(ə)r
-ˈshȯ(ə)r
: on or to the shore
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