Inshore is an English word with synonyms like onshore or seaward. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Inshore in a sentence
Inshore meaning
- Close to (especially in sight of) a shore.
- Of a wind, blowing from the sea to the land.
Using Inshore
- The main meaning on this page is: Close to (especially in sight of) a shore. | Of a wind, blowing from the sea to the land.
- Useful related words include: onshore, seaward, offshore, coastal.
- In the example corpus, inshore often appears in combinations such as: inshore lifeboat, the inshore, inshore rescue.
Context around Inshore
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inshore
- In this selection, "inshore" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, convert, nith, class, lifeboat, boat and crew stand out and add context to how "inshore" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of convert inshore and convert and a large inshore fleet mainly. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inshore" sits close to words such as abner, acorns and acquit, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inshore
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
However, the keelboats had an offshore course and the dinghies, inshore. (11 words)
Regular rodeo categories include 15 inshore species and 18 offshore species. (11 words)
They’re in the tidal rivers, bayous, inshore reefs, the bridges and jetties. (13 words)
Two of the all-weather crew changed into dry suits so they could crew the inshore boat and the inshore crew prepared both boats while pagers were sounded and further crew arrived to assist, enabling a fast launch. (38 words)
At 3.59pm on Thursday, September 5, Belfast Coastguard requested the launch of Troon's inshore lifeboat ‘Sheena’ after reports of a 13ft vessel with two people on board with machinery failure off the coast of Irvine. (37 words)
Most of the changes to marine policy the Greens proposed in their manifesto did not make it into the Bute House Agreement, including a three-mile limit to exclude dredgers and trawlers from sensitive inshore ecosystems. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Two of the all-weather crew changed into dry suits so they could crew the inshore boat and the inshore crew prepared both boats while pagers were sounded and further crew arrived to assist, enabling a fast launch.
Surface water temperatures on the Atlantic side reach a summer average of convert inshore and convert offshore to winter lows of convert inshore and convert offshore.
A search and rescue helicopter joined firefighters, police officers, coastguard teams and Nith Inshore Rescue in an operation by Loch Ken Holiday Park, near Castle Douglas.
Despite the challenging conditions, helm Martin Stokes and his crew, Craig Hopkins and Billy Brookes, responded rapidly, recovering the two casualties onto the D class inshore lifeboat (ILB).
Greencastle is the second largest white fish port in Ireland and is also home to a large inshore fleet mainly engaged in shellfish and crab, making it a key town in Ireland’s seafood sector.
However, the keelboats had an offshore course and the dinghies, inshore.
Inshore anglers can find large schools of redfish like this one caught by Capt. Danny Neese and Sloan Gibson from clear, shallow water during the winter months.
Inshore lifeboat helm Ken Hay added: "Good teamwork from my crew in difficult conditions brought the incident to a satisfactory and safe conclusion".
Most of the changes to marine policy the Greens proposed in their manifesto did not make it into the Bute House Agreement, including a three-mile limit to exclude dredgers and trawlers from sensitive inshore ecosystems.
Once both casualties were on the rescue board, the charity’s lifeguard calmed them down, tied their bodyboards to the back and paddled them inshore.
The crew launched their inshore lifeboat Spirit of Loch Fyne nine minutes later, located the damaged vessel and escorted it to the safety of West Bay harbour before returning to Lyme Regis at 9pm.
The harbour has a single basin and has a number of inshore vessels engaged in shellfish and squid fishing.
The volunteer inshore lifeboat crew at Weymouth brought the vessel safely into the harbour with support from Wyke Coastguard CRT.
They’re in the tidal rivers, bayous, inshore reefs, the bridges and jetties.
Andrew Jacobs, weighing in the only After Derby false albacore, took home a new St. Croix Avid Inshore 7-foot, 6-inch rod.
A Penlee spokesperson said: “At 6.30pm on Friday 21st June the Penlee inshore lifeboat Mollie and Ivor Dent was tasked by Falmouth Coastguards to a fire on a yacht in Newlyn harbour.
At 3.59pm on Thursday, September 5, Belfast Coastguard requested the launch of Troon's inshore lifeboat ‘Sheena’ after reports of a 13ft vessel with two people on board with machinery failure off the coast of Irvine.
It also was well known by fishermen that shortly after the capelin came inshore, so would the cod shortly after.
Regular rodeo categories include 15 inshore species and 18 offshore species.
Seventy eight of those were on the inshore lifeboat and 34 on the all-weather lifeboat.
Common combinations with inshore
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: