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How to use shipwreck in a sentence

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The wreckers hauling in salvage nets look like fishermen at first glance, but closer inspection reveals the traces of a shipwreck.
It takes its name from the life-sized shipwreck centrepiece containing a 150 ft-long water slide.
Both are about a teenage boy adrift in a boat with a tiger after a shipwreck.
For those who have dived upon an untouched shipwreck the experience is described as very moving indeed.
Memories were surfacing in his mind, like flotsam from a shipwreck, drawn upwards from the deep.
To find out why this happened and when we must go back to the thirteenth history and a shipwreck off the Wexford coast.
The dig, which began Monday, was a second priority for the divers, whose main goal was to survey the shipwreck site for storm damage.
The Heritage Office has released a shipwreck conservation management plan that documents the discovery of the submarine.
For Virilio, to invent the ship is to invent the shipwreck and to invent the train is to invent the derailment.
The publishers printed what was left, so readers remained unaware that the narrator survives the shipwreck.
With the help of his faithful spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures up a great storm causing a shipwreck on the shore nearby.
Property insurance developed in response to the hazards faced by medieval exporters, for example losses from shipwreck, piracy, or theft.
In 1675, however, the Caribs welcomed black Africans who survived the shipwreck of a Dutch ship carrying settlers and slaves.
Some say St Patrick himself built the chapel after surviving a shipwreck on the rocks below.
The earliest written reference to Malta is in the biblical account of Saint Paul's shipwreck.
After trucks fought their way through hostile towns to resupply us, I found myself hoarding rations like a shipwreck survivor.
The annals of the marine record no example of a shipwreck so terrible as that of the Medusa frigate.
The telegraphs with their enamel faceplates remained bolted to the floors, and that's not something you often see on a shipwreck off Britain.
And given the opportunity for sublime spectacle, shipwreck was a main-stay of visual culture.
From the day of the shipwreck a few miles off the coast last Thursday in which almost 150 migrants died, the beach was full of volunteers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The particulars of his shipwreck are unobtainable, as is often the case with other explorers.
Suffering from shipwreck and great destitution, it was necessary for him to economize, as much as possible, in his expenditures.
But the whirligigs have seen the shipwreck, and dart out on their water-ski to tear the thing to pieces.
The disease rotted away his flesh till he died, limbless or faceless in fearful shipwreck, and unhouselled.
Henceforth, you are nothing but a shipwreck in my life that I have tided over.
Her embarrassments have since been tided over and the family fortune saved, at least from total shipwreck.
Perhaps it is only men like this man, whose souls are stone-blind, that cannot see dimly the hidden shipwreck at hand.
Doctor Chassaigne's story was one of disaster, the shipwreck of a life.
Some of them resulted in terrible disasters of shipwreck and death.
Mishap, desertion, and shipwreck pursued the luckless commander.
A ship on a lee shore stands out to sea to escape shipwreck.
You rescue the mariner from shipwreck without wetting your feet.
Well, my dear, there has been a terrible shipwreck over in those East Indian seas.
By my faith, I could pardon the unhappy Vortigern, had he half the cause that we now witness, for making shipwreck of his honour and his kingdom.
A RARE and well-preserved 350-year-old gun carriage from a 17th century shipwreck has been raised from the depths.
But he has been charged with multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and aiding and abetting illegal immigration.
Nine months after the shipwreck Crusoe was overtaken by a violent fever.
Kevin Dykstra and Frederick Monroe, two treasure hunters based in Michigan, came across a shipwreck in 2011 in Lake Michigan.
What good fortune it was to have saved your guitar from shipwreck!
The Title-page is embellished with a vignette of a shipwreck.
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