Antonyms for offshore
ˈɔfˈʃɔr, -ˈʃoʊr, ˈɒf-off·shore

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1. offshore, seawardadjective

   (of winds) coming from the land

   "offshore winds"

   Antonyms:
   shoreward, seaward, onshore, inshore

   Synonyms:
   seaward, onshore, inshore, shoreward

2. offshoreadverb

   at some distance from the shore

   "offshore oil reserves"; "an offshore island"

   Antonyms:
   shoreward, inshore, onshore, seaward

   Synonyms:
   seaward

3. offshoreadverb

   away from shore; away from land

   "cruising three miles offshore"

   Antonyms:
   inshore, onshore, shoreward, seaward

How to use offshore in a sentence?

1. Benjamin Laws:

   There are no known connections between any of these offshore wind activities and any whale strandings, regardless of species.

2. Diane Hoskins:

   Almost 10 years after the BP Deepwater oil spill, offshore drilling is just as dirty and dangerous, despite pledges otherwise, there is still this unacceptable risk of devastating oil spills, and yet there is this call from the Trump administration to expand drilling to new areas and a call to abandon or weaken safety regulations. We should not be expanding drilling.

3. Tom Vilsack:

   There's no comparable market in the sense that you're dealing with a fairly significant set of consumers 90 miles offshore.

4. Brian Segee:

   We call on the Obama administration and Interior Department to put a halt to offshore acidizing and fracking unless and until they can be proven safe for California’s irreplaceable coastline.

5. Ian Rintoul:

   There simply is no safe arrangement for resettlement in Papua New Guinea. It is a gaping whole at the end of the Australian government's offshore processing arrangement and as long as that exists, there isn't a remedy.

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