driftwood

Example Sentences

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I scraped them off, searched around for driftwood, and tried to build up the fire.

From Literature

When they’d looked after the garden and fished for dinner and checked the beaches for driftwood or bottles or anything else that might have floated in on the tide, Nim had school.

From Literature

Jonathan found a piece of driftwood, yelled, “Moose! Fetch!” and threw it into the lake.

From Literature

“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