shipwreck
Example Sentences
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Thoreau’s account begins not on the Cape, but during his rail journey from Boston, when he joins a band of mourners and gawkers to survey a shipwreck in the town of Cohasset.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 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
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
Author and mudlarker Lara Maiklem said the boots were "definitely Victorian" and likely to have come from a shipwreck due to the quantity found.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025
But instead of being discouraged, he left for the shipwreck site determined to prove the “experts” wrong.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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