ASHORE in a Sentence

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The young sailor jumped into the skiff, and sat down in the stern sheets, with the order that he be put ashore at La Canebiere.

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 Meanings and Examples of ASHORE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ashore
 ad.  towards the shore from the water
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped, and Tom slipped overboard and swam ashore in the dusk, landing fifty yards downstream, out of danger of possible stragglers.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  So he stepped ashore and entered the woods.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  The crowd swarmed ashore and soon the forest distances and craggy heights echoed far and near with shoutings and laughter.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II.
5  It was a drift-canoe sure enough, and I clumb in and paddled her ashore.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
6  We went out with the skiff and towed it ashore.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
7  By and by she come along, and she drifted in so close that they could a run out a plank and walked ashore.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
8  Look sharp, now; the current sets in the closest here, and maybe he's washed ashore and got tangled amongst the brush at the water's edge.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
9  So pap said somebody got to get ashore and get help somehow.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII.
10  I wish you would," says I, "because it's pap that's there, and maybe you'd help me tow the raft ashore where the light is.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
11  I wished I hadn't ever come ashore that night to see such things.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII.
12  So they softened down and said it was all right; and when we got to the village they yawled us ashore.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV.
13  The young man sat safe within, till at length it ran ashore upon an unknown land.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
14  The young sailor jumped into the skiff, and sat down in the stern sheets, with the order that he be put ashore at La Canebiere.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
15  One of its chiefs, who understood Provencal, begged the commune of Marseilles to give them this bare and barren promontory, where, like the sailors of old, they had run their boats ashore.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
Example Sentence:
1  By and by she comes along, and she drifted in so close that they could a run out a plank and walked ashore.
2  When the boat was gone the king made me paddle up another mile to a lonesome place, and then he got ashore and says: "Now hustle back, right off, and fetch the duke up here, and the new carpet-bags.
3  A few of them had already come ashore and were beginning to spread out their nets in symmetrical patterns on the hot flags of the quay.
4  My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, "Let up on me -- it ain't too late yet -- I'll paddle ashore at the first light and tell."
5  Harry manages to clamber over the wall and tries to swim ashore.
6  He would walk along the beach collecting the flotsam and jetsam that had been washed ashore.
7  It was the sailors'first night ashore ; they painted the town red.
8  Slowly the fisherman reeled in his line, bringing the fish ashore.