shipwrecked

Example Sentences

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British mariners shipwrecked on Palau some 50 years earlier had helped another confederation, the Koror people, in war with a feuding village.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 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

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

From BBC • Mar. 4, 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