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

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

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

The life of the story lies in the artfully written details of the daily life of the sailor from the time when he was cast ashore on the desolate island.

From Comfort Found in Good Old Books by Fitch, George Hamlin

At ten o'clock we were cast ashore, in darkness and in rain; so that instead of feeling any inspiration, we felt only that we were very wet and very cold.

From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)