Definition of ashore
:on or to the shore
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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
Recent Examples of ashore from the Web
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The first confirmed fatality came early: A man in the Gulf coastal city of Rockport was killed in a fire late Friday as the storm raged ashore.
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The first confirmed fatality came early: A man in the Gulf coastal city of Rockport was killed in a fire late Friday as the storm raged ashore.
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Harvey slammed ashore Friday with historic levels of rain and flooding.
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The National Hurricane Center said Harvey, which first made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on Friday in Texas, washed ashore around 4 a.m. Wednesday just west of Cameron, La.
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The storm is expected to be just off the central Texas coast tonight before heading back ashore on the Louisiana coast early Wednesday.
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And five instrument stations in a nearby estuary that transmitted real-time weather and environmental data blinked offline this past Saturday night as Hurricane Harvey roared ashore.
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Hurricane Harvey struck Texas late Friday night, clobbering the state’s Gulf Coast with heavy rains and 130-mile-per-hour winds as the eye of the storm swept ashore.
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The eye of the storm swept ashore with 130-mile-per-hour winds about 9:45 p.m. between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor, just northeast of Corpus Christi.
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First Known Use of ashore
circa 1536
ASHORE Defined for English Language Learners
ashore
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Definition of ashore for English Language Learners
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: on or to the shore of an ocean, sea, lake, or river
ASHORE Defined for Kids
ashore
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Definition of ashore for Students
:on or to the shore
- We collected seashells that the waves had washed ashore.
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