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

Island where Danae and Perseus were cast ashore, 242, 249.

From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)

An English vessel has been cast ashore, and the sailors seek to make shelter.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by Trevena, John