Real-life examples: Boats are docked along shores. Many shores have beautiful, sandy beaches. MTV once filmed an infamous reality show on the shore of New Jersey.
Used in a sentence: Eve liked to watch the deer relax along the shore of the lake.

Shore is also used generally to mean any land. This sense is often used as a contrast to water, such as when talking about sailing or boating.\n

Used in a sentence: When I was in the Coast Guard, I didn’t spend much time on shore.

Shore can also mean a country.\n

Used in a sentence: I want to return to my native shore of Wales.

As a verb, shore means to support or to bolster. In this sense, it is often followed by the word up.\n

Real-life examples: A builder might shore up a roof with several posts. You might shore up your essay with quotes from the research you did. A government can shore up the solar energy industry by giving solar panel manufacturers tax breaks.
Used in a sentence: The president planned to shore up the economy by giving aid to small businesses.

Related to this sense, shore is used as a noun to mean a beam or post that acts as a support.\n

Used in a sentence: We used steel shores to keep the side wall from falling down.

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