shore in a sentence

shore meaning:

v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.

v.) to support with a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure;

shore sentence:

He walked along the shore.

The waves dashed the shore.

He shored up the wall with a thick balk of wood.

The ship clung to the shore.

Waves are beating the shore.

This island is two miles off shore.

Boundary walls have had to be shored up.

They shored up the old wooden bridge and opened it to pedestrians.

The President is trying various measures to shore up the economy.

The swimmers struggled to regain the shore.

We could see a boat about a mile from shore.

He made desperate efforts to reach the shore.

We camped on the north shore of Lake Michigan.

The arctic shore remains frozen until the summer thaw.

The men were clearing all the pollution off the shore.

They reported the ship to be ten kilometers from shore.

He was carried by the waves away from the shore and out to sea.

She was pointing to a small boat that was approaching the shore.

Scientists are puzzled as to why the whale had swum to the shore.

They tried to shore up the failing economy by means of tax increases.

You can see the picturesque shores beside the river.

Boundary walls have had to be shored up.

The builder shored up the wall with a thick balk of wood.

You’d better lift up the motor when the boat gets near the shore so that it doesn’t hit the rocks.

The French started building Djibouti City on the southern shore of the Gulf of Tadjoura in 1888.

The shore was dotted with colorful fishermen’s cottages, and the harbor was full of their boats.

The waves were getting bigger and bigger, so we were obliged to paddle our canoe back to shore.

The pebbles on the beach felt like they were massaging our feet as we walked along the shore.

We couldn’t get too close to the shore in the sailboat because the water was too shallow.

The view of the mountains was gorgeous as we stood on the shore, looking over the ocean.

Hundreds of people lined up on the shore to watch the old sailing ships float by.

There was a fifteen-knot wind blowing, so we kept the canoe close to the shore.

We decided to carry the canoe along the shore until we got past the rapids.

We pulled the kayaks up on shore, and sat down on the beach for a picnic.

We could see bears walking along the shore of the river as we paddled by.

We walked along the shore, watching the waves, and looking for seashells.

We motored to about a mile from shore and then got out our fishing rods.



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