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Shipwreck
"Shipwreck" in a Sentence (19 examples)
A bad wife is the shipwreck of her husband.
A bad wife turns her husband into a shipwreck.
The passage illustrates Robinson Crusoe's landing on a wild desert island after his shipwreck.
Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
I survived the shipwreck.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
A Bronze Age shipwreck was found in the Mediterranean.
A Bronze Age shipwreck was found in the Mediterranean Sea.
The sailor fears a shipwreck.
They weren't sure if there were any survivors from the shipwreck.
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heaven will drive shipwrecks ashore to make us all rich
Blackfishing from the beach. I've done my research. Hundreds of shipwrecks line the Jersey coast, and many of them are close enough to reach with a long cast on a dead-low tide. These wrecks hold tautog, porgies, sea bass, flounder.
The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.
Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores.
they made the coast of Cochin China, and the tempests, which rose at the same time, threatened them more than once with shipwreck
But now, ten years later, after his recent shipwreck, he cannot compete as a runner, though he can outthrow the slighter Phaeacians with the heaviest discus.
Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.
It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck.
Then you will have played your part and earned my gratitude completely. Five minutes, afterwards, if you insist upon an explanation, you will have understood that these arrangements are of capital importance; and that by the neglect of one of them, fantastic as they must appear, you might have charged your conscience with my death or the shipwreck of my reason.
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