Examples of ashore in a Sentence
We docked our boat and went ashore to visit the island.
the seashells that wash ashore after a storm
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Mosquitoes are continual companions ashore, and a welcoming swarm had need in order to reproduce their kind.
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Alann B. Steen, Outdoor Life, 21 May 2025
The Bahamas has quickly become a strategic departure point for many of these migrants coming ashore in Florida due to that country’s lifting of visa restrictions for Chinese citizens.
—Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 17 May 2025
The smell was tolerable but most of the seaweed had just recently drifted ashore.
—Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
Upon his twenty-first birthday, he is freed and comes ashore to join society and find a bride, but as with all Gilbert and Sullivan pieces, topsy-turvy hijinks ensue, this time as a result of some improbable calendrical technicalities.
—Christian Lewis, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
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Alann B. Steen, Outdoor Life, 21 May 2025
The Bahamas has quickly become a strategic departure point for many of these migrants coming ashore in Florida due to that country’s lifting of visa restrictions for Chinese citizens.
—Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 17 May 2025
The smell was tolerable but most of the seaweed had just recently drifted ashore.
—Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
Upon his twenty-first birthday, he is freed and comes ashore to join society and find a bride, but as with all Gilbert and Sullivan pieces, topsy-turvy hijinks ensue, this time as a result of some improbable calendrical technicalities.
—Christian Lewis, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
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“Ashore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ashore. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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ashore
adverb
ə-ˈshō(ə)r 
-ˈshȯ(ə)r
: on or to the shore
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