Sentence examples for Hit the shore from inspiring English sources

"When you hit the shore, burn the ships.

Heavy German fire killed about half of the 18 soldiers in Chaisson's squad before they hit the shore, he said.

When the boat hit the shore, Oz leaned over and pulled several strands of the grass out of the water.

The General Slocum, fireballing its way north, finally hit the shore of North Brother Island, between the Bronx and Rikers Island.

"We got up there two days later, a beautiful day, and we went ashore and they told us when we hit the shore, 'There's not a Jap on the island.' Perfect.

Oil first hit the shore just before Memorial Day, shutting beaches just when an influx of tourists was expected to triple the population of this small island, which has about 1,200 year-round residents.

Wave after wave of nationalism, isolationism, and tribalism have hit the shores of countries across Europe, and they have reached the United States.

Once those "unauthorised maritime arrivals" depart from Australia, where many of them have received medical treatment, and hit the shores of Nauru, our responsibility for them legally ceases.

While Martha's Vineyard has always been a destination for certain kinds of celebrities (in the past mostly literary and academic), a new wave of fame and money has hit the shores, often arriving from Washington, Wall Street or Hollywood.

In the years after Commodore Perry hit the shores of Japan in 1853, new perceptions took hold among American and Japanese artists, thinkers and writers, a cultural give-and-take that still echoes today.

According to HTC CEO Peter Chou, we should see this hit the shores sometime in Q1 of 2010.