driftwood
Example Sentences
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“The Housemaid” stumbles, and it doesn’t help that Sweeney spends much of the film meandering throughout its narrative like a piece of driftwood that keeps washing back onto the shore.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
Soldiers and police had helped clear the debris and driftwood.
From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025
Shaun Davis found the bench on Drigg beach near Seascale, which until closer inspection he said he thought was "a bit of driftwood".
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
Alongside the marine animals, Bischoff said he was excited to find an entire shore ecology that included skulls of sandpipers and pieces of driftwood in the bone bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024
But it’s there now, my knee throbbing as I balance across the bleached driftwood and step between the barnacle-edged rocks.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
