| Howard's mind clung to her voice as a drowning man clings to a piece of flotsam from a ship-wreck. |
| I never thought I would care about the difference between creek and brook, sea-marks and flotsam, guzzles and gutters. |
| It has the habit of swimming in small shoals around patches of flotsam, or floating logs, and is attracted by rafts or drifting boats. |
| The dive-site looks a tip as well, because blocks of granite of various sizes line the shore, along with flotsam and junk. |
| Inggs has for some time been collecting detritus and flotsam from an area a short distance from Cape Town where he spends a lot of time. |
| The tidal shoreline swamps of Piscataway Creek and the shore of Potomac River often have much large woody debris and flotsam from floods. |
