Brin-Jonathan Butler

Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

American Journalist

Susanna Moore

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.

American Writer

Seth Shostak

I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach is. In fact, no one's even sure which island Columbus first encountered (there are three candidates). It's a pity, a disappointment, and a lost revenue source for the Bahamians.

American Scientist

P. J. O'Rourke

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

American Comedian

Christopher Columbus

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

Italian Explorer

Rose George

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

British Journalist

William Dampier

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

English Explorer

Jeff Lindsay

My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.

American Playwright

Vincent Van Gogh

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Dutch Painter

Theodore Sturgeon

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

Use 'ashore' when describing movement from water towards the land.

Water To Land

'Ashore' is not commonly used for movements along rivers or streams.

Not For Rivers

Often used to describe emergency landings or arrivals on land.

Emergency Context

 I really hope that you kind of learn to kind of see the bigger picture. It can be quite emotional. Seeing them out in the wild just keeps you going. I mean, they are just so incredible. Seeing the birds come back in the evenings, come ashore feeding their chicks and that just keeps you going and wanting to protect them and make sure that they exist for a longer.

Rescuing Penguin Chicks...

 If any survivors made it ashore, he would heat his metal body red-hot and crush victims to his chest. Talos was intended to fulfill his duties day after day, with no variation. But despite his robotic behavior, he possessed an internal life his victims could scarcely imagine.

The Greek myth of Talos,...

 on our team and they were our translators so we went ashore and we met these guys well Alex turned out he had his climbing shoes in his pack and and he said something to me like hey marked you mind if I if I go look around a little bit and I was like yeah sure

To Climb the World PIPE...

 They'd been told that these islands, and several others nearby, were populated by cannibals. So the men pictured coming ashore only to be murdered and eaten for dinner. Another possible destination was Hawaii, but given the season, the captain was afraid

What fear can teach us PIPE...

 long sensitive whiskers help them feel their surroundings when visibility is poor at the end of summer female harbor seals come ashore to give birth to a single pup these pups are fantastically independent able to swim hours after being born and are

Sleepy Harbour Seals and...

 spent most of their time ashore, sometimes sabotaging their own vessels to avoid battle at sea. With little to stop them, the pirates were able to mount successful —and often brutal— raids on garrisons, villages, and markets throughout the coast.

The most successful...

 we only see large groups of adults when they come ashore to spawn. Horseshoe crab blood contains cells called amebocytes that protect them from infection by viruses, fungi, and bacteria. Amebocytes form gels around these invaders

Why do we harvest...

 usually starts on the edges albatrosses have little fear for humans because they only come ashore on these remote islands but still if I want to get into their world I have to make myself small and

Wings of the Albatross PIPE...

 which thrive in the cold water marine iguanas are the world's only sea lizards but when their distant ancestors were washed ashore in galapagos

Swimming Marine Iguanas...

 once the eggs hit water they hatch into tiny larvae and in about a month's time they'll climb back ashore to start their life on