cast ashore
Example Sentences
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If you fail to plot your course . . . one day you will be wrecked and cast ashore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he drifted for days, until finally he was cast ashore on Calypso’s island, where he had to stay for many years.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
At last, on the rocky shingle at the edge of the sea, they found two logs, sea-tossed, that had floated there on the tides and been cast ashore.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
The midshipman had been sent to rescue his own boat's party—the survivors of the ill-starred whaler that had been cast ashore in Yenikeui Bay.
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
About 700 men were cast ashore in Scotland, were humanely treated, and subsequently sent, by request of the Prince of Parma, to the Netherlands.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick
