jetsam

Example Sentences

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When this extraterrestrial jetsam occasionally plunges through the atmosphere, it poses a risk to life, infrastructure and the environment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

While the garden is rooted in local culture, built bit by bit from the flotsam and jetsam of Los Angeles locations and plants native to the ecology, the programming is more global in approach.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

Slowly, to the sound of gently undulating waves, the bodies begin to roll from side to side, like jetsam washing onshore.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2023

"They're looking for flotsam and jetsam, they're looking for coins. Not many of them are looking for bits of Mars like I am."

From BBC • May 31, 2022

Already men were labouring to clear a way through the jetsam of battle; and now out from the Gate came some bearing litters.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien