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shorewards

ADVERB
ashore
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


Example Sentences

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After my swim, I hurried back shorewards to secure my prize, when, much to my chagrin, I found my boy floating about, enjoying himself.

From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Stables, Gordon

Somebody was baling furiously, two men tugged and thrust, Spanish fashion, at every oar, and they reeled away shorewards with the water lapping into her.

From The Dust of Conflict by Bindloss, Harold

Then Tom fixed his eye on some moving lights shorewards.

From The Boys of the Wireless by Webster, Frank V.

When she stood close to the waves all these little whirligigs came dancing shorewards, until they stopped only a few feet away and gazed at her curiously.

From The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall by Tregarthen, Enys

Harry cast his eyes shorewards, the breakers were thundering on the beach, but no one was visible except a solitary armed Arab.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon




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