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

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

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

Chylocladia clavellosa, which is sometimes cast ashore a foot and a half long, is closely set with branches, and these again clothed with branchlets in one or two series.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter

There was only the wreckage of a little schooner cast ashore.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert