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
The party were betrayed and robbed by the captain of their vessel, and cast ashore upon the coast of Madagascar.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
The hull of the foreign vessel was carried out to sea at night, and apparently knocked to pieces by the waves, for many portions of the wreck were cast ashore along the adjacent coast.
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
