Sentence examples for touched shore from inspiring English sources

When the bow of the boat touched shore, we pulled ourselves on board.

THE wave of economic reforms that has washed over Latin America first touched shore in Chile.

In June, the full effect of the financial crisis touched shore with the effect of a hurricane.

My father leapt off the boat as it touched shore, gun in hand, and made a long detour around the sandbar where the mugger lay, balancing its extreme wiliness against its cold-blooded craving for a hot sunbath.

By the time our dinghy touched shore, he had recognized me and said, "Welcome home!" After lunch, we set up mist nets — fine black nylon netting used to capture birds — in the gardens behind the village.

Though the county was spared the devastation experienced in the Rockaways, on Staten Island and on parts of Long Island, six days after Hurricane Sandy touched shore, life was still far from normal for many residents, even as they watched the power go back on in more populous regions.

Over the course of the last week, our "Saving the Ocean" video crew touched shores and reefs of the Bahamas, Florida and Mexico.

There is, for instance, Reid Stowe, who is preparing himself and Anne, his schooner, for 1,000 days at sea without touching shore.

He notes a Persian proverb: "Help thou thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine own has touched the shore".

What Albanese was celebrating was not Columbus the explorer, whose logbooks famously showed that his fleet never touched the shores of what would become the United States.

The Terminal Artist, never venturing south of Newburgh, worked the second-tier hospitals that formed a constellation of upstate New York medical care stretching all the way up to the edge of Buffalo, which somehow escapes the upstate tag by being along the shore of Lake Ontario, which for its part touches the shore of Canada.