Toward the beach

Usage examples of inshore.

If we could have made it close inshore, then we could have coasted along the island of Anglesey making for the mainland around the Lleyn Peninsular.

The tugs are tied up at one of the inshore berths where there is greater protection.

Not quite an acre in size, it was shaped like a cloven hoof, the split on its northeastern It side forming a cove that plunged to a depth of at least a hundred fathoms and was densely forested with eelgrass along its inshore ledges.

Charlotte Cotton left the stricken ship with them, and Barlow, with an unlikely combination of good fortune and seamanship, was able to find a passage through the wild sea and murderous reefs into the quieter waters of the inshore channel.

The crash boat was now passing between the submerged outer reefs before entering the open inshore waters.

The tug was churning along in the teeth of the zephyr, and after it had passed the Davy Jones, the workboat turned inshore.

Inshore, the other fishermen and crabbers would poach on your territory, cut your nets and steal your traps.

Aboard this vessel was a fancy new depth sounder called a fathometer, which was designed to facilitate inshore maneuvers during beach landings, but Hess realized that it could equally well be used for scientific purposes and never switched it off, even when far out at sea, even in the heat of battle.

They struggled constantly for the inshore, but Runt rode their rumps alternately, the displacement lifting their heads out of the water to good advantage.

Blackfish, the type that had been the staple of inshore whaling in New England before they were hunted out and the big whalers began to sail to Hawaii and Kamchatka.

Quite close inshore was the yacht, just ahead of her, bowling merrily along--much too fast, she thought--before the blustery wind, and she could see Willy quite clearly in it.

In the summers, even the cool summers they had been having lately, the extensive inshore shallows of the sea grew as warm as blood, and dolphins—adapted from Terran river dolphins like the baiji from China, or the boto from the Amazon, or the susu from the Ganges, or the bhulan from the Indus—sported just off the beach.

In the summers, even the cool summers they had been having lately, the extensive inshore shallows of the sea grew as warm as blood, and dolphins - adapted from Terran river dolphins like the baiji from China, or the boto from the Amazon, or the susu from the Ganges, or the bhulan from the Indus - sported just off the beach.

Third, low winds, blowing inshore, were needed to clear the beaches of smoke so that targets would not be obscured.

The schooner crept inshore, gliding over the shallows where the water was like that of a mountain stream, so clear that they could make out every detail of the reef thirty feet down and watch the shoals of coral fish below like bejewelled clouds through the crystal waters.