Antonyms for offshore


Grammar : Adj
Spell : awf-shawr, -shohr, of-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔfˈʃɔr, -ˈʃoʊr, ˈɒf-


Definition of offshore

  • adj away from the shoreline
Example sentences :
  • The shampooer's whistles drifted out on the offshore breeze.
  • Extract from : « Boy Scouts in the Philippines » by G. Harvey Ralphson
  • The wind was offshore, and by the morning I was out of sight of the French coast.
  • Extract from : « No Surrender! » by G. A. Henty
  • It made no more impression upon him than if he had been an offshore buoy.
  • Extract from : « Caleb West, Master Diver » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • It is important also just offshore from Audierne, Douarnenez, and Camaret.
  • Extract from : « Rambles in Brittany » by Francis Miltoun
  • Our protective oceans mean that likely conflict is offshore.
  • Extract from : « Shock and Awe » by Harlan K. Ullman
  • Thousands of ships and barges and warcraft lay in the harbor or offshore.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee Flier in Italy » by Rutherford G. Montgomery
  • Through the night they drifted, the current keeping them just offshore.
  • Extract from : « Jane Stewardess of the Air Lines » by Ruthe S. Wheeler
  • Offshore lay the fruit steamer Andador, of the Vesuvius line, full-laden and scheduled to sail at six in the morning.
  • Extract from : « Cabbages and Kings » by O. Henry
  • For this purpose, he decided to set up headquarters on an island just offshore in the Great Bay.
  • Extract from : « Despoilers of the Golden Empire » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • An offshore stock may be found year-round in the Labrador Sea.
  • Extract from : « Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic » by Stephen Leatherwood

Synonyms for offshore

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