ashore

Example Sentences

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Shelley was a seaman gunner on the destroyer HMS Milne on D-Day and guarded troops going ashore during the Normandy landings in June 1944.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

The team found a news article about other human remains washing ashore in 1999 a few miles south of Bodega Bay, about four miles from Salmon Creek State Beach, according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

He added that parts of a damaged life raft, an barrel of lubricants and footwear had washed ashore, and officials were trying to establish if they were from the sunk Dena.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

Dupin lives on the roughly 4-acre island year-round and hauls members ashore with a hand-pulled ferry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

I gladly—very gladly—help load bedding, tents, pots, and pans onto the longboat to be taken ashore.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone