shipwrecked

Example Sentences

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International law requires belligerents in a war to assist sailors wounded or shipwrecked in battle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

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

The shipwrecked people then managed to contact Alarm Phone - an emergency hotline for migrants in trouble at sea.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

Instead, it brings the 17th century society vividly to life through a historically accurate spoken and visual language, which includes thousands of costumes for warlords, armies, peasants, courtesans and a bunch of shipwrecked European sailors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024

He mourned the dead girl all that day, fraying the nerves of the whole family and all the neighbors, who came running at the sound of his shipwrecked howls.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende