Word Finder - shore

definition

Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.

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lake shore;  bay shore;  gulf shore;  island shore;  mainland shore;  river shore;  estuary shore;  pond shore;  sandy shore;  rocky shore

definition

(from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.

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The passengers signed up for shore tours.

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To set on shore.

We're not swimming back to shore, are we?

Set me on shore and leave me there.

I've chosen the sea shore as the final resting place for my little beauty.

I want to stay at The Ocean Shore Motel.

There were groves of trees near the shore, and high hills beyond them.

Hunter had personally interviewed the employees at the Ocean Shore Motel, but with little success.

In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water's edge.

Every morning, before lesson-time, we all go out to the steep hill on the northern shore of the lake near the house, and coast for an hour or so.

The sea shore is too far to the east so I fear she'll be remanded to a roadside bier of Kudzu and discarded fast food wrappers.

She stepped back and watched as he excitedly hauled the little mud cat to the shore and released it.

The ship anchored near the shore, where barbarians in ill-fitting clothing made of animal skins awaited them.

The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously.

She wasn't too far from shore, though any distance felt impossible with her cold body.

That work was on the point of opening its most brilliant chapter by an invasion of the great king's dominions; the army was concentrated and certain forces had already been sent on to occupy the opposite shore of the Hellespont.

According to sources at the Ocean Shore Motel, Byrne was last seen on his way to the beach shortly after midnight by Leo Sutter, a waiter at the motel.

Dean hadn't given that much thought but he remembered what Vinnie Baratto had said about the Maryland eastern shore and explained it was across the Chesapeake Bay.

The word is someone did in Wassermann over on the Eastern Shore and the tide carried him out in the middle of the Chesapeake.

Vinnie thinks he knows where some of his friends have a place around St. Michaels, on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake.

Between the mainland and Ramree lies a group of islands separated by deep, narrow, salt-water inlets, forming the north-eastern shore of Kyaukpyu harbour, which extends for nearly 30 m.

Cherbourg, its chid harbour, lies on the northern shore between the two promontories.

Then four of the sailors rowed him to the shore and left him there.

It's a shame I don't have a little princess to lay to rest along its pristine shore.

She hauled the smaller woman closer to shore.

She baited the hook and threw it in the pond, watching as tiny waves rippled out from the bobber and gently lapped at the grassy shore.

Lana looked up at the bridge, trying to determine which way it was to shore.

With grueling slowness, she drew nearer the shore.

By the time the man had finished, his night vision was better and he could make out the tiny necklace of lights in the distance, the Chesapeake Bridge-Tunnel that ran 17 miles to the Eastern shore.

Everyone in New Jersey was traveling to Pennsylvania while all the folks in the Keystone state were spending their weekend on the Jersey shore.

Of these, Thetis and Amphitrite rule the sea according to the legend of different localities; Galatea is a Sicilian figure, who plays with and deludes her rustic lover of the shore, Polyphemus.

In February 1700 Dampier called at Juan Fernandez and while there Captain Straddling of the "Cinque Porte" galley quarrelled with his men, forty-two of whom deserted but were afterwards taken on board by Dampier; five seamen, however, remained on shore.

This ceremony arose out of a dinner held annually at Dagenham, on the Essex shore of the Thames, by the commissioners for engineering works carried out there in 1705-1720 - a remarkable achievement for this period - to save the lowlands from flooding.

On the west the shore is perfectly flat, so that a slight rise in the water causes the inundation of a considerable area - a fact not without its influence on the estimates made at varying periods as to the size of the lake.

In January 1535 he entered the river Plate, where he followed the northern shore to the island of San Gabriel, and then crossing over he landed by a little stream, still called Riachuelo.

But generally the low grounds are parched and rocky, presenting only a few thickets of Peruvian cactus and stunted shrubs, and a most uninviting shore.

The Turks were almost all sunk or driven on shore.

Along the portion of the south shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria which belongs to Queensland and the east coast, many large rivers discharge their waters, amongst them the Norman, Flinders, Leichhardt, Albert and Gregory on the southern shore, and the Batavia, Archer, Coleman, Mitchell, Staaten and Gilbert on the eastern shore.

Crossing the Murray at Albury, the explorers, bearing to the south-west, skirted the western shore of Port Philip and reached the sea-coast near where the town of Geelong now stands.

Here, without actually standing on the sea-beach of the northern shore, they met the tidal waters of the sea.

The islands on each coast present the features of the shore to which they are adjacent.

Along the shore of Lake Champlain are a few species of maritime plants that remain from the time when portions of western Vermont were covered by the sea, and on the upper slopes of some of the higher mountains are a few Alpine species; these, however, are much less numerous on the Green Mountains of Vermont than on the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Vermont was heavily forested with white pine, spruce and hemlock, and, in the southern part of the state and along the shore of Lake Champlain, with some hard woods.

The oak will not bear exposure to the full force of the sea gale, though in ravines and on sheltered slopes oak woods sometimes extend nearly to the shore.

The city stands at the foot of low bluffs, about a mile from the shore line.

The port is formed by a stone reef running parallel with and a half-mile from the shore line, within which vessels of light draft find a safe anchorage, except from southerly gales.

Towards the Black Sea, the less elevated Istranja Dagh stretches from north-west to south-east; and the entire south coast, which includes the promontory of Gallipoli and the western shore of the Dardanelles, is everywhere hilly or mountainous, except near the estuaries of the Maritza, and of the Mesta, a western frontier stream.

A post-station bearing the name Sirmio stood on the high-road between Brixia and Verona, near the southern shore of the lake.

On the shore below is the little village of Sermione, with sulphur baths.

In many cases a still heavier type is used for the first mile or two from shore, and several intermediate types are often introduced, tapering gradually to the thin deep-water type.

After the cable has been again subjected to the proper electrical tests and found to be in perfect condition, the ship is taken to the place where the shore end is to be landed.

A sufficient length of cable to reach the shore or the cable-house is paid overboard and coiled on a raft or rafts, or on the deck of a steam-launch, in order to be connected with the shore.