shipwreck
Example Sentences
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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
A mysterious shipwreck, a colourful cathedral and a "birthplace of the communication age" are among the remarkable places in England that have been granted special protection this year.
From BBC
“It looks like two classically shipwrecked people,” Smith said, calling it a “highly questionable decision that these two people on that obviously incapacitated vessel were still in any kind of fight.”
From Salon
As reading declines, fragments of the literary past float to the cultural surface like corpses after a shipwreck.
The survivors may have been subject to protections provided to shipwrecked sailors, or to those given to troops who have been rendered unable to continue fighting.
From BBC
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