shipwreck
Example Sentences
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And in an age when many steamboats, cheaply built and poorly maintained, did, in the words of one contemporary, “a wholesale business in human slaughter,” Vanderbilt never lost a ship to fire, explosion or shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
In this longer and more structured form, what began as an intentional scattering of ashes becomes an elegiac letter home mediated by shipwreck.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
Curtis, a travel content creator, said he was exploring the coastal path when a friend mentioned a nearby shipwreck.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
The ship would, over time, attain legendary status and prompt the widespread belief, on at least three continents, that it was, as Mr. Sancton writes, “the most valuable shipwreck in history.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
We cling to each other like survivors of a shipwreck, astonished that neither of us drowned.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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