He is crouching over as if he were inspecting some kind of beached specimen, his hair like a tuft of grass atop a windswept rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hook News Blog] Reference

The larger ships anchored, the smaller were beached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

After dark we found that our boat was being beached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference

It's been beached on Route 66 for more than 30 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [SET YOUR SITES] Reference

 The whale beached itself and opened its gaping mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sky Angler] Reference

Half an hour later they beached her at the landing-place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

"She seems to have been beached up north here a little way.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference

Channel voyages, having to be beached just like rowing boats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

He'd be sweating liberally and moaning like a beached sea lion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body Divided, 4] Reference

People said it beached in a storm and had been there for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet another, as Icarus, waxless and featherless, falls] Reference

"And once beached," I inquired, "how shall we get her off again?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference

I swept your close-packed Praya and beached your best at Kowloon!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

As he looked, the punt struck a submerged sandbank and beached on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

And when you see the tide come in, think of all those beached hedgies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hedgies' Tide Rolls Out] Reference

Another 50 were spotted just offshore, some of which later beached themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [56 Pilot Whales Die After Being Stranded On New Zealand Beach] Reference

The boys slipped behind a big boulder and a moment later the boat was beached.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference

The boat being beached in season, the men trail oars and jump to their stations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

The young man walked slowly down the road toward the shore where his boat was beached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

"Not if it makes you look like a beached whale when you stand next to me at the altar.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids] Reference

Lawford turned back toward the group of life-saving men standing about the beached boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

In ten minutes he had beached the canoe within a rod of the point from where he embarked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference

The T. D.V would glide silently through the water until it beached itself at a depth of 3 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hell and back...] Reference

Moving very cautiously he reached the place where the canoe was beached, and looked down into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference

From the bow of a beached trawler, startled eyes watch the birds then turn to see the woman smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cormorant] Reference

They ultimately entered the narrow, sluggish creek, and Jim beached the boat on the northern side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

Within a few moments the little boat was beached, the officer sprang out, advanced to Madame de La.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference

There, beached on the opposite bank, is his example of how to do this, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.    From Wordnik.com.  [Basque-Ing In Glory] Reference

"They're the beached whales of the retail industry," he says, "too sick to live, and too big to die.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Remaking A Dinosaur] Reference

Their ships had been beached and were lying high and dry when the rapidly rising tide overwhelmed them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

Out we scrambled; the men immediately beached the frail bark, and as they did so the water all ran away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

The two boats pulled quietly for the shore, keeping close together, and they were beached at the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference

I don't have to tell you that the bottom 98 percent of your friends and followers beached themselves long ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Maezen Miller: Death by Twitter] Reference

Leonardo DiCaprio fans have been beached for two years, waiting for the King of the World's return to the screen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsmakers] Reference

My periodontist recently recommended a procedure that I feared would make my face swell up like a beached fish for weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Bet Your Life] Reference

He lay in a great tangle of bedclothes, snoring hideously and making little motions with his hands and arms like a beached whale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Like a Light] Reference

Most analysts believe manufacturers have struggled to export while their main markets in the eurozone and the US remained beached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystery of Britain's missing exports] Reference

Of the two, Slater initially seems the cool, grounded one, while Martin is prone to galvanic spasms and beached-salmon thrashings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster] Reference

But the next day, 40 of the whales beached themselves again, in many cases sicker and more disoriented than they had been the day before.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Whale's Final Voyage] Reference