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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "inshore" in a sentence

    inshore example sentences

    inshore


    1. numerous inshore boats visible to the north and south


    2. and many men to fend off the reefs as they made their way inshore


    3. Bêlit mocked at his superstitions and ordered the galley run inshore and tied to the crumbling wharfs


    4. It dragged at him as with tangible, animate, slimy hands, but he buffeted the rushing surge with the strength of desperation and drew closer and closer inshore, fighting furiously for every inch


    5. Conan scanned the shoreline closely, and finally swung the long sweep and headed inshore at a point where a neck of land jutted into the water, and fir trees grew in a curiously symmetrical ring about a gray, strangely shaped rock


    6. Tirpitz and Scharnhorst opened fire with their main armament and German destroyers ran inshore with landing parties


    7. The cruiser was not classed as sea going, just inshore waters, but the weather forecast was fine, with good visibility and no cloud


    8. inshore waters of the harbour


    9. At the base of the hill, and passing through the inshore and


    10. He tried being the tough soldier, telling her tales - mostly true - about manning the inshore patrol boat, dropping commandos on the beach in Lebanon

    11. When it was daylight, here was the clear Ohio water inshore, sure enough, and outside was the old regular Muddy! So it was all up with Cairo


    12. -Jellyfish are often swept inshore after a storm


    13. Many inshore fish, living in reefs and lagoons, are poisonous to eat


    14. , enough for chitons and brittlestars if the wind wasn’t blowing inshore by then


    15. Close inshore was a multitude of fishing smacks--English, Scotch, French, Dutch, and Swedish; steam launches from the Thames, yachts, electric boats; and beyond were ships of large burden, a multitude of filthy colliers, trim merchantmen, cattle ships, passenger boats, petroleum tanks, ocean tramps, an old white transport even, neat white and grey liners from Southampton and Hamburg; and along the blue coast across the Blackwater my brother could make out dimly a dense swarm of boats chaffering with the people on the beach, a swarm which also extended up the Blackwater almost to Maldon


    16. The Doctor hailed them and they came inshore


    17. It is a quiet noon-scene among the isles of the Pacific; a French whaler anchored, inshore, in a calm, and lazily taking water on board; the loosened sails of the ship, and the long leaves of the palms in the background, both drooping together in the breezeless air


    18. With a fair, fresh wind, the Pequod was now drawing nigh to these straits; Ahab purposing to pass through them into the Javan sea, and thence, cruising northwards, over waters known to be frequented here and there by the Sperm Whale, sweep inshore by the Philippine Islands, and gain the far coast of Japan, in time for the great whaling season there


    19. “They can come inshore as far as that


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    Synonyms for "inshore"

    inshore onshore shoreward

    "inshore" definitions

    (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land


    close to a shore


    toward the shore