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

And, again, when run ashore, cling terror-stricken to the vessel and its rigging, till beaten off before succour arrives when they are cast ashore.

From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by Fenn, George Manville

His ship is wrecked on the English coast, and the captain, Tibaldo, is cast ashore in a dying condition.

From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall