shipwreck
Example Sentences
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They were the go-to gifts for Father’s Day: a book about some little-known chapter of World War II, the sweeping narrative of a shipwreck, perhaps the latest presidential biography.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Among them is his Oscar-shortlisted “The Deep,” the tale of an Icelandic fisherman who survived a 1984 shipwreck for six hours in 41-degrees-Fahrenheit ocean water, swam to shore and then walked barefoot over lava fields.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
In this longer and more structured form, what began as an intentional scattering of ashes becomes an elegiac letter home mediated by shipwreck.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
She was found near the Maheno shipwreck, which was washed ashore in 1935 and is now a popular tourist landmark.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026
We cling to each other like survivors of a shipwreck, astonished that neither of us drowned.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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