shipwrecked
Example Sentences
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Coast Guard initially reported a shipwrecked sailor may have sparked the blaze after firing flares for help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
How generations have read the Declaration of Independence, a shipwrecked crew’s island perils, the joys of soccer fandom on more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
“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 ● Dec. 5, 2025
On Friday, Italy's coastguard said it was searching for the survivors of a shipwrecked vessel carrying about 30 people in the search and a rescue area of Malta, some 50 miles southeast of Lampedusa.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Like shipwrecked people, we huddled together in a warmth and courtesy that was pure and pathetic.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
