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
Piscine Molitor Patel, a 16-year-old boy also known as Pi, makes this impassioned declaration to two men struggling to make sense of his account of having survived a shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 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
The only shipwreck of its type known to have survived, the Pin Wreck was discovered 35 years ago.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
Duane studied the shipwreck with great interest because Duane was a polar bear in possession of a curious nature.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
