shorewards

Example Sentences

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Our submarines used to patrol regularly along Piccadilly Circus to look out for and attack enemy ships, and at intervals went shorewards through the minefield in order to reconnoitre.

From The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War by Knight, E. F. (Edward Frederick)

All around were pieces of timber of all sizes and shapes, slowly drifting shorewards with the flood tide.

From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

A heavy swell was running from the south-west, and rank on rank of breakers—10 feet or so in height—were rolling shorewards, throwing up clouds of smoke-like foam.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden

Charley Bo Yip's head popped out of the galley door; and the guards all stared shorewards.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman

Somebody was baling furiously, two men tugged and thrust, Spanish fashion, at every oar, and they reeled away shorewards with the water lapping into her.

From The Dust of Conflict by Bindloss, Harold