set ashore


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Verb1.set ashore - arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
shore, land
arrive, come, get - reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"
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This sailor quarreled with his captain, and was set ashore upon an uninhabited island where he remained alone for more than four years.
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'Voyage Round the World,' and also, as every one knows, by the experience of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who, set ashore on the island of Juan Fernandez, off the coast of Chile, had lived there alone from 1709 to 1713.
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When the Lamberts set ashore they were mobbed by curious Koreans.
Shock arrival: The Wanderer's 1882 visit to Busan

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