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

Even though Polk was severely injured, Faulkingham said, he was safe and felt God was watching as flotsam and jetsam from his boat was pushed ashore.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2023

They will tell you he was the flotsam and jetsam of a sport which was becoming unmoored from reality.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023

The place was a back eddy, a pool of jetsam beyond the pull of the main current, and that suited him just fine.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer