SHORE in a Sentence

Learn SHORE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

248 example sentences for SHORE, such as:

1. The ship clung to the shore.
2. It was a long pull to the shore.
3. The waves lave the shore day and night.
4. I sat on the shore and looked at the sea.
5. He rowed as quickly as he could to the shore.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHORE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shore
 n.  the land along the edge of a body of water
 v.  support by placing against something solid or rigid
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears
2  There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille
3  The stillness of lake and shore and wood was so wonderful that he did not go into the villa he lived in.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  It was not inhabited; it lay far over toward the further shore, abreast a dense and almost wholly unpeopled forest.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  There was an easy, comfortable path along the shore under the bluff, but it lacked the advantages of difficulty and danger so valued by a pirate.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  They sprang to their feet and hurried to the shore toward the town.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  A few minutes later Tom was in the shoal water of the bar, wading toward the Illinois shore.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  However, he reached the shore finally, and drifted along till he found a low place and drew himself out.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  He put his hand on his jacket pocket, found his piece of bark safe, and then struck through the woods, following the shore, with streaming garments.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  It was believed that the search for the bodies had been a fruitless effort merely because the drowning must have occurred in mid-channel, since the boys, being good swimmers, would otherwise have escaped to shore.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  Presently, without a parting word, Joe began to wade off toward the Illinois shore.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  Tom skimmed up the shore through the long twilight, chatting cheerily with Huck, and landed shortly after dark.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  I says to myself, they'll follow the track of that sackful of rocks to the shore and then drag the river for me.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
14  The moon was so bright I could a counted the drift logs that went a-slipping along, black and still, hundreds of yards out from shore.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
15  I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore.
17  Shallow Pools and Crevices Considerable variation in shore fauna can occur even in the same stretch of coast.
18  When the storm rose on the river, they had to bale out to reach the shore safely.
19  It was a long pull to the shore.
20  He rowed as quickly as he could to the shore.
21  I sat on the shore and looked at the sea.
22  The ship clung to the shore.
23  The path ran along the southern shore of the lake.
24  The arctic shore remains frozen until the summer thaw.
25  If a boat was to come along we was going to take to the canoe and break for the Illinois shore; and it was well a boat didn't come, for we hadn't ever thought to put the gun in the canoe, or a fishing line, or anything to eat.
26  The current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
27  Of course I was where the current set in the closest to the shore -- I knowed enough for that.
28  We laid there all day, and watched the rafts and steamboats spin down the Missouri shore.
29  The waves lave the shore day and night.
30  He fired a grenade launcher into a rock on the shore and received a nick from the flying rock.