Sentence examples for had floated ashore from inspiring English sources
Two Border Patrol agents examining packages of marijuana that had floated ashore along the Rio Grande were fired upon by unseen assailants on the Mexican side of the river, the authorities said.
The scallop had long been associated with love, fertility and birth and was a symbol of the classical goddesses Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, who was said to have floated ashore on a scallop shell (as in Sandro Botticelli's famous depiction of The Birth of Venus).
We fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up.
The second has floated free.
Mexico's peso has floated since 1995.
Joy has floated between worlds.
Instead, politicians have floated proposals.
He walked, but he could have floated.
And there are objects so rare and weird that they seemed to have dropped from the world beyond: so-called drift-seeds, which floated ashore from the West Indies and were turned into charms, odd-shaped or queerly colored pebbles that drew fevers, or brought a loved one home.
The craft capsized, the woman was drowned, supposedly, and Mr. Gibson floated ashore on the upturned keel.
Dr. Boersma said she got her first inkling that biological toxins might be at work when a freshly dead penguin floated ashore this winter.
