onshore

Example Sentences

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Sable had resumed production at one of its three offshore oil platforms last May, but was unable to transport the oil through the onshore pipelines due to ongoing legal and regulatory blocks.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

Iran’s oil fields are located largely onshore in the country’s southwest and offshore in the northern Persian Gulf.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

The greenback was recently up 0.8% at 1,478.25 won in Seoul onshore trading.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Footage shows the official arriving onshore in an inflatable small boat and handing over the eviction notice to Mandarin at a make-shift camp.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

As though back onshore, all of France is left to bite its fingernails and flee and stumble and weep and wake to a numb, gray dawn, unable to believe what is happening.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr