What's the difference between foreshore and shore?

Foreshore


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sheep in this almost feral flock have access to a small area of unmanaged moorland pasture but are otherwise restricted to the foreshore where they subsist largely on Laminaria spp.
  • (2) Woodstock Beach in the 1940s, before it was destroyed by land reclamation that extended Cape Town’s foreshore “As racial segregation and institutional inequalities became locked in to the country’s urban landscapes through the formalisation of the apartheid legal codes, Woodstock crucially fell outside of the large-scale implementation of the Group Areas Act ,” wrote Andrew Fleming in his 2011 dissertation Making a Place for the Rich?
  • (3) But the boy who bypassed industrial foreshores to find a local forest for his own special experience has become a prime minister with no worries about issuing a death warrant against distant pristine forests which he has never seen.
  • (4) A common feature of this outbreak and a similar occurrence 24 years previously was the grazing of plants growing on the exposed silt foreshores of Burrinjuck Dam by ewes and cows in the early stages of pregnancy.
  • (5) A fortnight ago the Crown Estate launched local management agreements designed to give more power to communities over their estuaries, foreshore and harbours.
  • (6) • Near Ventnor (01983 730052, blackgangchine.com ); 10-6pm, over-fours £9.95, concessions £7.95, saver for four people £37.50 Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, Lincolnshire The mile-long miniature railway at Cleethorpes runs from Kingsway station along the sea-sprayed foreshore to North Sea Lane station.
  • (7) This is the foreshore walk, looking away from the Pier in the direction of Tower Esplanade, shortly before 7pm; about 40 minutes before high tide.
  • (8) They underline how unearned wealth in London flows down from the glens and foreshore, that loom large in the nationalist imagination.
  • (9) The foreshore is rocky, so a series of square pools have been cut into them, with ladders and steps into the water.
  • (10) The video was taken looking southwards along what is normally a foreshore footpath.
  • (11) One of the first accounts came from Charles Darwin when, midway through his Beagle voyage along the Patagonian archipelago, he witnessed a great earthquake thrust the coastline of Chile a few metres upwards, stranding vast foreshores high and dry.
  • (12) The Guardian broke the news at 12.45pm, saying that when the tide came out at 4pm on the Kent foreshore there was free gold and it was finders keepers.
  • (13) We continued down a steep slope that ended on the foreshore.

Shore


Definition:

  • () of Shear
  • () imp. of Shear.
  • (n.) A sewer.
  • (n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
  • (v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
  • (v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
  • (v. t.) To set on shore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
  • (2) This isn’t a devolved matter, this is about when they come to our shores here, UK taxpayers and their ability to use UK services,” Creasy said.
  • (3) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
  • (4) He told MPs that any steps taken to shore up the markets as a result of the referendum would be disclosed afterwards.
  • (5) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  • (6) They moved to shore up May’s position after a weekend of damaging leaks and briefings from inside the cabinet, believed to be fuelled by some of those jostling to succeed the prime minister after her disastrous election result.
  • (7) New orders and new export growth also slowed and the number of people employed across the manufacturing sector fell, adding to pressure on policymakers at the European Central Bank (ECB) to take more action to shore up growthin the region.
  • (8) The small prawns found on the shore during the winter exhibited a much altered behaviour.
  • (9) Total concentrations can range from a few parts per million in non-polluted intertidal and oceanic areas to parts per thousand in heavily contaminated estuarine, lake and near-shore environments.
  • (10) In the second affair, a month before polling day, Australian authorities intercepted a boatload of distressed people bound for the northern shores.
  • (11) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
  • (12) This condition is a genodermatosis, seen chiefly around the shores of the Mediterranean, characterised by early pigment disturbances which progress virtually inexorably towards a diffuse epitheliomatosis which usually results in death before the age of 20 years.
  • (13) Brown restored a degree of his authority yesterday when no other cabinet ­minister echoed James Purnell's call for him to quit, and two critical cabinet figures – David Miliband and John Hutton – decided to shore up Brown's position rather than join a potential rebellion.
  • (14) Hollande’s dinner and overnight stay at Chequers was also due to cover a strategy for Syria in light of growing signs that the president, Bashar al-Assad, is being shored up by additional military help from Russia and Iran.
  • (15) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
  • (16) But that was the fate of Peter Shore, who has died aged 77.
  • (17) They harvest shellfish standing in the water or meandering through mangrove forests on the shore.
  • (18) The time to hand over the reins came and went, Keating challenged and lost, before heading to the backbench to lick his wounds and shore up the factional numbers needed for a successful spill.
  • (19) As candidates and supporters packed out cafes and community centres, desperate to shore up to support on caucus eve, life continued as normal for most Iowans on Monday – with many critical of how hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination have conducted their campaigns.
  • (20) ", also suggests the country is, at heart, tolerant of those who come to its shores.

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