ashore
towards the shore from the water
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,537 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 53,797 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adverb
- towards the shore from the water we invited them ashore
ashore in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Our state began when the Dutch colonists first stepped ashore on Paradise Point.
Once Upon a Time in Delaware · Katharine Pyle · Chapter 1
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Three blissful days of untrammelled freedom ashore, in which to eat, bathe, and sleep at will!
Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-Man · Bartimeus · Chapter 1
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She had been getting herself ashore in the smoke, and she had to be docked And repaired.
Following the Equator · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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The old man passed up two or three more, took a glass of grog, and paddled ashore.
The Colonial Mortuary Bard: 1901 · Louis Becke · Chapter 1
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As soon as he felt the ground beneath him, however, he seized the half-suffocated singer by the arm and dragged him ashore.
Quicksands · Adolf Streckfuss · Chapter 1