ashore
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About six to eight hours after coming ashore, the seals' heart rates surged, sometimes climbing as high as 84 beats per minute.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
Then they’ll bring the astronauts back ashore as the Murtha slowly returns to San Diego.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Shelley was a seaman gunner on the destroyer HMS Milne on D-Day and guarded troops going ashore during the Normandy landings in June 1944.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
He added that parts of a damaged life raft, an barrel of lubricants and footwear had washed ashore, and officials were trying to establish if they were from the sunk Dena.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
When she stepped ashore she found herself in darkness for the rise of the ground, and the trees, cut off the moonlight.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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