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shorewards

ADVERB
ashore
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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Nor could he help but realize the other's almost slavish deference, as, in response to the older man's order, he hastily moved off shorewards.

From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum

Then Tom fixed his eye on some moving lights shorewards.

From The Boys of the Wireless by Frank V. Webster

"Good luck, old man!" said Fuller earnestly, The three airmen shook hands with the skipper, and dropping into the whaler were rowed shorewards.

From Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

The surf breaking shorewards was tremendously high; and meeting and struggling with it came a rush of the current from within.

From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

Harry cast his eyes shorewards, the breakers were thundering on the beach, but no one was visible except a solitary armed Arab.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Gordon Stables




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