Sentence examples for were blown ashore from inspiring English sources
The storm took the lives of 34 sailors as vessels were blown ashore and men swept overboard.
Many marine vessels were blown ashore or sunken in Pensacola, and railroads in the city were severely damaged.
The first attempt to refloat a 17,000-tonne drilling platform that was blown ashore during a storm off the Western Isles of Scotland could start on Tuesday.
By Ralph Frye The New Yorker, December 2 , 1944P. 88 About the many cargo vessels that were blow ashore and a certain amount of looting practiced by the inhabitants of Sicasset.
Buildings were damaged ashore, with two people killed by falling masonry, while on the river, vessels were blown from their moorings and damaged by colliding with one another or with the quays.
While recovering items lost when the ironclad grounded off Pantelleria, Defence damaged her propeller and rudder when she briefly grounded in the trough of a wave, and was nearly blown ashore herself in March 1872.
"Transformers were blowing up".
