How to Use wash ashore in a Sentence

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  • The tags could wash ashore anywhere along the MA Coast.
    Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • Beach towns and cities and hotels have struggled to keep up with the huge amounts of seaweed that wash ashore.
    Suman Naishadham, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The rats’ bodies — thousands and thousands of them — then wash ashore.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Some vessels wash ashore and become part of the landscape.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Researchers say that the true death toll is likely far larger since most whales struck by ships sink to the bottom of the ocean rather than wash ashore.
    Popular Science, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Menhaden that are still alive in that portion of the river may wash ashore dead over the next few days, according to Herron.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Since then, a doctor there and another in Medenine, have examined bodies that wash ashore in Zarzis.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Navedo is also concerned about the chemicals and antibiotics that wash ashore from massive salmon-rearing pens in the Gulf of Ancud.
    Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Although no official release date for it has been confirmed, Riordan thinks Percy Jackson and the Olympians will wash ashore sometime in 2024.
    Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The algae bloom has essentially choked some sea life, producing a foul smell as dead marine animals wash ashore.
    Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Park officials for Brazoria County said that a cleanup effort was underway but thousands more fish were expected to wash ashore.
    Chris Cameron, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • The animals found so far have been a mix of males and females, including both adults and juveniles, and the total so far is likely low because not all animals that die at sea will wash ashore to be spotted by surveyors.
    Elizabeth Earl For Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Oil was also continuing to wash ashore in Huntington Beach early Monday.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Fish carcasses that wash ashore produce a lingering stench, what activists describe as a pungent manifestation of the country’s politics.
    NBC News, 21 Mar. 2022

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