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 largest of the group is Desmarestia ligulata, which, with the other British species, D. aculeata, is often cast ashore.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Peter Gray
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 George Manville Fenn
