(adv.) On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the advances in the conservative management of surgical emergencies over the last 20 years medical hazards at sea are relatively few and do not differ significantly from those experienced ashore.
(2) Most British shipping companies maintain comprehensive medical services both ashore and afloat which are concerned with not only treatment but also preventive medicine.
(3) As his plane landed, more than 160 Eritreans were coming ashore in the port, the latest of almost 8,000 arrivals on Italy's southern coasts so far this year, according to UN figures.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A view of the museum from the air The name Arken means The Arc, as the building was originally meant to be built on the beach resembling a large ship washed ashore.
(5) This path was built to link the tiny fishing settlements along the edge of the loch and allow the precious cargo of "silver darlings" to be carried ashore.
(6) A piece of debris recently found on an Indian Ocean island where a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines flight 370 had previously washed ashore is unlikely to be from the missing plane, Australian officials have said.
(7) This year the MCS is already receiving reports of tens of thousands of toothbrushes being washed ashore from Southampton to Scotland.
(8) Filled with wood nymphs, spirits, goblins and sprites, long before Christian missionaries waded ashore, our forests reigned supreme.
(9) In the novel, the count comes ashore when a Russian schooner, the Demeter, runs aground, all hands lost.
(10) Some 25,000 residents – 10% of his constituents – have been displaced, and nearly 2,000 killed, with gruesome reminders of the tragedy becoming ever more apparent every day: this week a second mass burial site was dug to accommodate the growing number of corpses found washed ashore or from the mounds of debris that line the city's streets and canals.
(11) "It would seem that the French were successful in preventing the bulk of this very large oil mass from coming ashore," the MBA researchers concluded.
(12) They were carried or staggered ashore, some paralysed by malnutrition, others little more than walking skeletons, burnt and dazed from weeks at sea on boats the UN has called “floating coffins”.
(13) About 95% will probably never come ashore and is destined for that massive swirl of floating plastic known as the north Pacific garbage patch.
(14) We are taken ashore and forced to run the gauntlet of rows of soldiers while military TV films us.
(15) "For every pirate that goes to legal finish there are three or four that end up being put back ashore.
(16) The introduction of strict weight control guidelines in the American Navy has drawn attention to a theory that obese sailors lose weight more readily at sea than ashore.
(17) In the gloom of Aitches ale house, a favourite watering hole for oilmen coming ashore after working on the North Sea rigs, the barman spoke for well-paid customers who want things to stay the way they are: " It's all no in here, mate.
(18) We can imagine swarms of terrorists charging ashore off the Dover ferry, but it would make more sense putting Dad’s Army back in uniform and issuing teachers with machine guns.
(19) But Savitz says that most of the birds and fish die from the spill out to sea and will not wash ashore, never to be seen, let alone counted.
(20) Duplication of the monitors has been provided in the “Salvage Room” ashore, where all the other engineers and technicians will follow the operation and be able to provide assistance if and when the need arises.
Driftwood
Definition:
(n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
(n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Example Sentences:
(1) The War Against Terror is another moment in this continuing saga of our species toward an unpredictable somewhere between All against All and One World,” writes Scott Atran, attempting to place terrorism in the context of the evolution of human identities: While economic globalisation has steamrolled or left aside large chunks of humankind, political globalisation actively engages people of all societies and walks of life – even the global economy’s driftwood: refugees, migrants, marginals, and those most frustrated in their aspirations.
(2) Sixteen South Belfast-based Sixteen South specialises in children's TV programmes and its hits include Pajanimals and Driftwood Bay .
(3) • Doubles from €115 B&B, laalmendrayelgitano.com Hotel MC San José A chic and stylish boutique hotel in a seaside town, with a proper seaside holiday feel courtesy of the boat in the lobby and liberal use of driftwood and pebbles.
(4) There's a wood-burning stove, and bits of sculpture everywhere – a couple of large marrows sculpted in brass, another of concrete; a skull with gold-tipped teeth (like Lucas's own, they flash when she smiles); a pair of pert round breasts, perched like jellies atop shelves of music; small casts of her boyfriend Julian Simmons's penis, made for her show Penetralia , which opened in 2008; a big painting by Raymond Pettibon; huge red platform shoes and black fetish boots that she will cast in concrete and show in Krems, Austria in July; a general, seaside sense of driftwood and flotsam.
(5) We think about making a sculpture out of driftwood.
(6) In theory this is the moment of pure patronage in British politics, the hours when the prime minister can ruthlessly remove the ministerial deadwood and driftwood, alongside the politically awkward or dispensable.
(7) The show started in 1860 when the newly-wed "Professor" Codman carved two pieces of driftwood into the much-loved glove puppets.
(8) The £6bn garden industry sells plants but also £20,000 wooden statues of horses and panthers, £10,000 gateposts and sheds, as well as beehives, bird boxes and driftwood sculptures.
(9) For me, Weston's black and white images of Point Lobos – its angular rocks, tangled seaweed, bent cypress trees, sun-scorched driftwood – possess an almost unearthly beauty that is both austere and sensual, somehow not so "heightened" through technique as his more famous pictures.
(10) How much easier it would be to turn away from my intended destination and move in their direction, flowing with them, like driftwood carried by a flood.
(11) Rita Kaimwata, a 27-year-old mother of two (soon to be three), lives in a typical Kiribati home of driftwood, salvaged timber and palm thatching.
(12) We stop at fjord-side pots in Strandir , on rocky beaches strewn with giant pieces of driftwood from Siberian trees bleached by the elements.
(13) The item, discovered among seaweed and driftwood, resembles part of a plane, with the words “caution no step” visible, according to footage on Australia’s Channel Seven.
(14) Inside is a bench of driftwood and some empty plastic containers.
(15) This winter you’ll be stepping into Skye Halla, a Viking “Drinking Hall in the Clouds” with fire pits, driftwood sculptures and a Viking long boat.
(16) When I arrived to build my own bothy, I found the wreckage of many other formerly grand structures, now merely driftwood on the sand.