Ashore
adverb
Towards or on the land from the sea or a body of water.
The sailors swam ashore after the shipwreck.
Often appears as...
- come ashore
- swim ashore
adverb
Towards or on the land from the sea or a body of water.
The sailors swam ashore after the shipwreck.
Often appears as...
- come ashore
- swim ashore
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Pro Tip 1/3Water To Land
Use 'ashore' when describing movement from water towards the land.
The pirates pulled the treasure chest ashore.
Pro Tip 2/3Not For Rivers
'Ashore' is not commonly used for movements along rivers or streams.
The raft floated down the river, not ashore.
Pro Tip 3/3Emergency Context
Often used to describe emergency landings or arrivals on land.
After the storm, the lifeboats brought everyone safely ashore.
Pro Tip 1/3Water To Land
Use 'ashore' when describing movement from water towards the land.
The pirates pulled the treasure chest ashore.
Pro Tip 2/3Not For Rivers
'Ashore' is not commonly used for movements along rivers or streams.
The raft floated down the river, not ashore.
Pro Tip 3/3Emergency Context
Often used to describe emergency landings or arrivals on land.
After the storm, the lifeboats brought everyone safely ashore.
Pro Tip 1/3Water To Land
Use 'ashore' when describing movement from water towards the land.
The pirates pulled the treasure chest ashore.
Pro Tip 2/3Not For Rivers
'Ashore' is not commonly used for movements along rivers or streams.
The raft floated down the river, not ashore.
Pro Tip 3/3Emergency Context
Often used to describe emergency landings or arrivals on land.
After the storm, the lifeboats brought everyone safely ashore.
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Rescuing Penguin Chicks...
I really hope that you kind of learn to kind of see the bigger picture. It can be quite emotional. Seeing them out in the wild just keeps you going. I mean, they are just so incredible. Seeing the birds come back in the evenings, come ashore feeding their chicks and that just keeps you going and wanting to protect them and make sure that they exist for a longer.
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The Greek myth of Talos,...
If any survivors made it ashore, he would heat his metal body red-hot and crush victims to his chest. Talos was intended to fulfill his duties day after day, with no variation. But despite his robotic behavior, he possessed an internal life his victims could scarcely imagine.
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To Climb the World PIPE...
on our team and they were our translators so we went ashore and we met these guys well Alex turned out he had his climbing shoes in his pack and and he said something to me like hey marked you mind if I if I go look around a little bit and I was like yeah sure
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What fear can teach us PIPE...
They'd been told that these islands, and several others nearby, were populated by cannibals. So the men pictured coming ashore only to be murdered and eaten for dinner. Another possible destination was Hawaii, but given the season, the captain was afraid
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Sleepy Harbour Seals and...
long sensitive whiskers help them feel their surroundings when visibility is poor at the end of summer female harbor seals come ashore to give birth to a single pup these pups are fantastically independent able to swim hours after being born and are
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The most successful...
spent most of their time ashore, sometimes sabotaging their own vessels to avoid battle at sea. With little to stop them, the pirates were able to mount successful —and often brutal— raids on garrisons, villages, and markets throughout the coast.
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Why do we harvest...
we only see large groups of adults when they come ashore to spawn. Horseshoe crab blood contains cells called amebocytes that protect them from infection by viruses, fungi, and bacteria. Amebocytes form gels around these invaders
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Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
usually starts on the edges albatrosses have little fear for humans because they only come ashore on these remote islands but still if I want to get into their world I have to make myself small and
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Swimming Marine Iguanas...
which thrive in the cold water marine iguanas are the world's only sea lizards but when their distant ancestors were washed ashore in galapagos
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Cuba's Animal Underworld...
once the eggs hit water they hatch into tiny larvae and in about a month's time they'll climb back ashore to start their life on
Video examples
Rescuing Penguin Chicks...
I really hope that you kind of learn to kind of see the bigger picture. It can be quite emotional. Seeing them out in the wild just keeps you going. I mean, they are just so incredible. Seeing the birds come back in the evenings, come ashore feeding their chicks and that just keeps you going and wanting to protect them and make sure that they exist for a longer.
Video examples
The Greek myth of Talos,...
If any survivors made it ashore, he would heat his metal body red-hot and crush victims to his chest. Talos was intended to fulfill his duties day after day, with no variation. But despite his robotic behavior, he possessed an internal life his victims could scarcely imagine.
Video examples
To Climb the World PIPE...
on our team and they were our translators so we went ashore and we met these guys well Alex turned out he had his climbing shoes in his pack and and he said something to me like hey marked you mind if I if I go look around a little bit and I was like yeah sure
Video examples
What fear can teach us PIPE...
They'd been told that these islands, and several others nearby, were populated by cannibals. So the men pictured coming ashore only to be murdered and eaten for dinner. Another possible destination was Hawaii, but given the season, the captain was afraid
Video examples
Sleepy Harbour Seals and...
long sensitive whiskers help them feel their surroundings when visibility is poor at the end of summer female harbor seals come ashore to give birth to a single pup these pups are fantastically independent able to swim hours after being born and are
Video examples
The most successful...
spent most of their time ashore, sometimes sabotaging their own vessels to avoid battle at sea. With little to stop them, the pirates were able to mount successful —and often brutal— raids on garrisons, villages, and markets throughout the coast.
Video examples
Why do we harvest...
we only see large groups of adults when they come ashore to spawn. Horseshoe crab blood contains cells called amebocytes that protect them from infection by viruses, fungi, and bacteria. Amebocytes form gels around these invaders
Video examples
Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
usually starts on the edges albatrosses have little fear for humans because they only come ashore on these remote islands but still if I want to get into their world I have to make myself small and
Video examples
Swimming Marine Iguanas...
which thrive in the cold water marine iguanas are the world's only sea lizards but when their distant ancestors were washed ashore in galapagos
Video examples
Cuba's Animal Underworld...
once the eggs hit water they hatch into tiny larvae and in about a month's time they'll climb back ashore to start their life on
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Quote examples
Brin-Jonathan Butler
American Journalist
Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
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Susanna Moore
American Writer
The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach is. In fact, no one's even sure which island Columbus first encountered (there are three candidates). It's a pity, a disappointment, and a lost revenue source for the Bahamians.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
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Christopher Columbus
Italian Explorer
After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
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Rose George
British Journalist
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.
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William Dampier
English Explorer
I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.
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Jeff Lindsay
American Playwright
My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.
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Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch Painter
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
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Theodore Sturgeon
American Writer
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
Quote examples
Brin-Jonathan Butler
American Journalist
Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
Quote examples
Susanna Moore
American Writer
The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.
Quote examples
Seth Shostak
American Scientist
I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach is. In fact, no one's even sure which island Columbus first encountered (there are three candidates). It's a pity, a disappointment, and a lost revenue source for the Bahamians.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
Quote examples
Christopher Columbus
Italian Explorer
After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
Quote examples
Rose George
British Journalist
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.
Quote examples
William Dampier
English Explorer
I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.
Quote examples
Jeff Lindsay
American Playwright
My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.
Quote examples
Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch Painter
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Quote examples
Theodore Sturgeon
American Writer
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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