shipwreck
Example Sentences
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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
The RoW confirmed the shoes had been "legally declared", "as they have the potential to have come from a shipwreck".
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026
He added that Guinean authorities had helped families of shipwreck victims that they know about, often the few that gain media attention.
From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025
As reading declines, fragments of the literary past float to the cultural surface like corpses after a shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Flotsam means the leftover bits and pieces of a shipwreck, while jetsam means items thrown overboard on purpose.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
