cast ashore
Example Sentences
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If you fail to plot your course . . . one day you will be wrecked and cast ashore.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last, on the rocky shingle at the edge of the sea, they found two logs, sea-tossed, that had floated there on the tides and been cast ashore.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
Then he drifted for days, until finally he was cast ashore on Calypso’s island, where he had to stay for many years.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
A traveller, cast ashore in the wreck of his vessel on the dreaded Hollows of Euboea, was sheltered, in a rude, warm-hearted fashion, by some peasants.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
The plant of this group most often cast ashore is Dictyota dichotoma.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Peter Gray
