driftwood
Example Sentences
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Jonathan found a piece of driftwood, yelled, “Moose! Fetch!” and threw it into the lake.
From Literature
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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
The kraken laid her on a piece of driftwood, as carefully as a child laying down a doll.
From Literature
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Soldiers and police had helped clear the debris and driftwood.
From Barron's
It looked like a chunk of driftwood, but as Roz marched closer, she saw that it was a sea creature, slowly swimming against the current.
From Literature
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