adjective
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Close to (especially in sight of) a shore.
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(of a wind) Blowing from the sea to the land.
adverb
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Near the shore.
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Towards the shore.
Examples of inshore in a Sentence
Lobito Bay has water sufficient to allow large ships to unload close inshore.
Eastward as far as Cape Morris Jesup there are precipitous headlands and islands, as elsewhere, with deep water close inshore.
Experiments with labelled plaice, carried out in 1904 by the Marine Biological Association, showed that small plaice transplanted to the Dogger Bank in spring grew three times as rapidly as those on the inshore grounds, and the same result, with insignificant variations, has been obtained by similar experiments in each succeeding year.
It has accommodation for a large fleet with deep water close inshore, but the arid nature of the country caused it to be neglected by the early navigators, and with the growth of Cape Town Saldanha Bay was rarely visited.
At Lobito steamers can come close inshore and discharge cargo direct.
They are again absent up to the Sunday river in Cape Colony, where Lower Cretaceous rocks (for long considered to be of Oolitic age) of an inshore character are met with.
The shallower waters of the inshore dive sites are home to smaller tropical fish including the rare and endemic chromis damselfish.
The whole sea was covered with sharks from close inshore to the horizon.
Wreck moved inshore following day, where 10 bodies were recovered.
South coast There is an extensive boulder plain covered by dense kelp inshore of Lee Rocks.
Typical South West inshore trawler This model is still incomplete Motorized sailing ketch by John Berridge.
Today the offshore lifeboat station is at the end of the pier, whilst the inshore lifeboat operates from the beach.
An emergency call from a member of the public alerted the Coastguard, who immediately requested the Torbay inshore and all-weather lifeboats to launch.
It was supplied in large numbers to the Royal Navy as a propulsion engine for inshore minesweepers.
Most pipefish species are coastal or inshore, but the snake pipefish is the only one described as an open sea or oceanic species.
The main benefit would be to provide more precise input to modeling of the contribution of wave refraction to inshore wave climate.
Admiral Sir John Jervis recognized Horatio's special qualities and made him Commodore of an inshore squadron.
He still reached the mark ahead of Val who had taken an early port tack inshore.
They should complement the sandbank habitats already represented within the SAC series inshore.
An inshore race at each of the main stopover ports will also be included in the 2005-2006 event.
Velvet Crab Fishery The smaller inshore boats target velvet crabs.
Yacht racing can be divided into three classes; Inshore, meaning the Solent.
You can work up an appetite by riding a rented bike, roller-skating and skateboarding, best done around sunrise to get a chance at seeing dolphins inshore.
The Leptolinae are chiefly forms belonging to the inshore fauna.
Part of the French losses, which were disproportionately heavy, were caused by the gunboats which lay close inshore and cannonaded the left flank of the French columns, and by a heavy naval gun which was placed in battery near the position of the 28th.
A field of electro-mechanical mines was laid by the Japanese in the night of April 12th-13th, and on the following day the Japanese cruisers stood inshore to tempt Arthur.
Hamilton Benn and four French were attached for smoke screen, inshore and rescue work, and the whole force was under Commodore Hubert Lynes.