Example Sentences

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More than 200 whales have beached themselves in a mass stranding in Tasmania, Australia.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2022

The critters have beached before in Newport Beach and Laguna Beach but Sunday's activity in Huntington Beach stood out, said Marine Safety Lt.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2015

A more urgent century, however, seemed to have beached the paper, like Britain itself, in the glorious past.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within three or four minutes the pursuers would have beached the canoe and dashed in pursuit.

From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Strang, Herbert

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

From The Ivory Trail by Mundy, Talbot