shipwreck
Example Sentences
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The party aimed for Ternate, an island in Indonesia, 800 miles from their shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
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
Part of a historic shipwreck has been revealed on a beach in the wake of Storm Chandra.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026
Meanwhile, nonfiction authors contemplate a Spanish shipwreck, a racially motivated murder, the origins of great ideas and how laughter can change our lives.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025
“Oh, be careful,” whispered Salmakia, but Lyra’s mind was already racing ahead through the story she’d told the night before, shaping and cutting and improving and adding: parents dead; family treasure; shipwreck; escape...
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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