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
They were cast ashore without resources; hating the poor-house as a shelter for their offspring, and abhorring the thought of selling themselves as laborers.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
About a score of the ships were cast ashore or wrecked.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin
