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Example sentences for "beached"

Lexicographically close words:
bdellium; beach; beachcomber; beachcombers; beaches; beachhead; beaching; beachmen; beacon
  1. When morning came the deserters could be made out camped on the shore, near to the beached dory.

  2. From then until we beached the canoes at last in a gap in the papyrus on the lake's northern shore, we pressed forward like hunted men.

  3. At first we were all in a stew because there was no land near, where we might have beached the dhow and scattered.

  4. At the Falls of Teotonio we paddled up to the very brink of the cataract and beached snugly in a little eddy at the side.

  5. This so angered the Indians that they marched down to Don Christopher's Cove, surrounded the beached ships, and threatened to kill every Spaniard there.

  6. He therefore had the Pinta beached and recaulked and took in wood and water, and continued his voyage on Tuesday, January 8th.

  7. Here they disembarked, beached their ships, dug a trench, and constructed a stockade round them; and on the inhabitants of the city refusing to submit without compulsion, they set to work to besiege the town.

  8. At that point there was a stratum of soft clay, which took and preserved the impression of everything of weight which rested upon it; and instantly he perceived a number of footmarks about a spot where a canoe had been beached twice.

  9. She examined the shore of the lake expecting to discover a canoe or canoes beached there, but there was nothing of the sort to be seen.

  10. A canoe had been beached there, and plain as the footprints which startled Crusoe, were the marks of moccasined feet going from and returning to the sand bar.

  11. She found it in a quiet little bay beyond a tree-crowned bluff, and in a little time she had beached the clumsy craft, and jumped ashore.

  12. They gently beached the space-ship on the sloping expanse of sand, running her nose a little way up above the water level while the light surf lapped her dripping sides.

  13. The Viking might possibly get up into the air with the power of her rockets alone if they beached her on a sloping shore with her nose upward, but she could never come down safely without helicopters.

  14. Anxious hands fumbled in the darkness for ammunition while Hanna--since the gun lacked sights--peered down the bore to draw a bead on the beached and stationary Patrol Boat No.

  15. The ships steamed past somber reminders of 7 December--the beached battleship Nevada and a Douglas SBD Dauntless from the Enterprise that had been shot down by “friendly fire” off Fort Kamehameha.

  16. Some of his projectiles evidently touched off a magazine, and the beached warship began to burn.

  17. Although the light was shut off as suddenly as it had been turned on, its momentary beam revealed a landing boat aground on Wilkes’ rocky shore and, beyond that, two destroyers, beached on Wake.

  18. It was a quarter of five when we beached at the upper ferry-landing at Grand Detour.

  19. Taking a final spurt down to a ferry-landing a quarter of a mile beyond, on the south bank, we beached our canoe at 5.

  20. Pushing our way in, we beached in the slimy shore-mud and scrambled upon the land, where the tall grass was now as sloppy with dew as though it had been rained upon.

  21. We had his company, side by side, till we reached the St. Paul railway trestle, and beached at the foot of a deserted stave mill, in whose innermost recesses we deposited our traps.

  22. He had come ashore to stand by the bow of the beached launch, and apparently he mistook us for his own people returning.

  23. The seaman rowed straight for the shore, beached the boat with a last sturdy pull at the oars, and leaping out into the curling surf, held the skiff steady.

  24. In ten minutes he had beached the canoe within a rod of the point from where he embarked.

  25. But he put about, beached his boat and vanished up the street.

  26. Presently he stopped and gently beached the boat.

  27. Very slowly, with the help of the starboard engine, Captain Cornwall took her in towards Leith and beached his ship on the shoals near the new harbour.

  28. As for the four beached cruisers, they were in a parlous condition, and it would take weeks to effect repairs.

  29. In due course Harry again reached the cove opposite the schooner hulk, and this time, being rather tired, he decided to sit down on the beached dinghy and take a rest.

  30. But Ben Stubbs had darted from the shanty and was running for the beached skiff.

  31. But what with the darkness and his unfamiliarity with that part of the coast, he had failed to land in the cove adjoining the fisher village of Motthaven, and had beached his craft a considerable distance to the south of the place.

  32. With an idea of carrying out his patrol properly, Harry went toward the darker patch amid the gloom which showed him where the beached dinghy lay.

  33. We beached the canoe before the little farm, and went up to the hut there and took possession as a matter of course.

  34. Tod was awaiting them when the last boatload beached on the island.

  35. They beached the boat and made their way up the bank and across a field where oats had just been cut, the bundles lying yellow as gold in the early morning sunlight.

  36. Both boys had a shivery feeling of being watched, but no sign was apparent as they floated in behind the point of the island and noiselessly beached the boat.

  37. Five minutes later he had beached it and was walking up the gravel path to the house.

  38. They were old men, human driftwood, beached in their declining years, crabbed and sour, looking always backward with unconscious regret.

  39. She was settling fast when they beached her in the Bay.

  40. I thought we would capsize but before I could make out the pirate ships he beached us and we scrambled ashore, drenched and shoeless.

  41. We slept in beached boats, the surf snarling, stars breaking through fast clouds: I remembered the big dipper and frightened people.

  42. There is no other place where they could have beached their boat for many miles.

  43. He turned her toward the shore and beached her, hauling down his flag as she struck.

  44. Ben Stubbs and the boys, in the Tarantula's launch, early the next day went back to the sand-spit where the Golden Eagle II had been beached and dismantled her, as soon as the inspection of the submarine was completed.

  45. In this state she was towed into West Port, a distance of four miles, and there beached on a sheltered stretch of sand.

  46. When beached the hatches were taken off, the casks removed, and a false deck was built about 7 ft.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beached" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aground; grounded; stranded