(1) Injudicious as Neil Hamilton's misdemeanors were, they were only the flotsam on the tide of Tory sleaze.
(2) There are question marks being raised as to whether you could interpret this as being anything other than flotsam,” he said.
(3) Succinct tales of fracture and failure, and thumbnail sketches of lonely desperation, positively revelling in the flotsam of American life are all set to jaunty rock and ragtime rhythms.
(4) There’s weightier stuff underneath, the post-second-world-war search for meaning of Anderson’s last film The Master washing up here in the flotsam of California’s alternative communities (the director adapted Pynchon’s 2009 novel during a hiatus in development on the earlier work).
(5) MH370 search: 'rogue pilot' theory still on Australian investigators' radar Read more Two other pieces of flotsam, found on Réunion and Mozambique , are suspected to come from the plane, but are yet to be positively identified.
(6) There's a wood-burning stove, and bits of sculpture everywhere – a couple of large marrows sculpted in brass, another of concrete; a skull with gold-tipped teeth (like Lucas's own, they flash when she smiles); a pair of pert round breasts, perched like jellies atop shelves of music; small casts of her boyfriend Julian Simmons's penis, made for her show Penetralia , which opened in 2008; a big painting by Raymond Pettibon; huge red platform shoes and black fetish boots that she will cast in concrete and show in Krems, Austria in July; a general, seaside sense of driftwood and flotsam.
(7) Coastal communities on the US west coast are now discussing what to do with the large quantities of flotsam that could make it ashore in the coming months.
(8) A dead pig lolls among the flotsam on South Tarawa beach.
(9) He set about interviewing the crossing-sweepers, Punch and Judy entertainers, sandwich-sellers, rag-gatherers, rat-killers, doll's-eye makers, thieves, prostitutes, beggars, and all the other pieces of human flotsam and jetsam that had washed up in the capital.
(10) It's a bold combo that would turn heads in dour downtown Montreal, although Claire looks perfectly at home among the junkshop flotsam and aborted art projects of La Brique, a former industrial loft that's now the epicentre of the city's colourful underground scene.
(11) For those sweet souls out there whose minds have remained unsullied by the flotsam and jetsam of the fashion world, I shall explain.
(12) Everybody knows that we shall not be detaining the Saudi paymasters of terror for 42 days; just as happened under internment, we shall be scraping up the flotsam and jetsam of communities.
(13) Beachcombers began to pick their way through the flotsam and jetsam thrown on to the shore.
(14) Is Maya, like Ishmael, the lone survivor left clinging to the flotsam of the Pequod?
(15) When we started out, we picked up all sorts of flotsam and jetsam.
(16) Those of us already caught in its grip are but flotsam, inconvenient but ultimately discardable.
(17) It’s one thing to spill your guts in your own book, but another to do so among the Z-list flotsam and jetsam in the CBB house.
Shipwreck
Definition:
(n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
(n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
(n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
(v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.
(v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.
Example Sentences:
(1) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
(2) On Thursday, EU leaders will hold an emergency summit in Brussels in the wake of a shipwreck off Libya last weekend that authorities believe may have killed more than 800 migrants .
(3) Video: Interview with the man who found the wing fragment The on 19 December 2015, an “anomalous sonar contact” was identified by the JACC, with analysis suggesting the object was likely to be man-made, probably a shipwreck.
(4) These shipwrecks cannot be therefore considered mere ‘incidents’.
(5) A spokesperson for the organiation in Rome, Flavio Di Giacomo, said the number of shipwrecks reflected the poor state of the boats used by the refugees and the current harsh weather conditions at sea.
(6) Visiting a shipwreck in Stockholm: history, maths, science, English and geography.
(7) Among the events planned is a mass at a church where many of the survivors were taken for shelter on the night of the shipwreck.
(8) I find out about the shipwrecks through different mediums.
(9) At the time of the shipwreck, the majority of the women and children were in the hold to protect them from cold,” said Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesman for the IOM.
(10) "It has disturbed the community divided it a bit," she said, explaining that there is a feeling among islanders outside of the port that they have lost out in the interest the shipwreck has brought.
(11) There are rumours of shipwrecks buried hundreds of metres below where I was pitched, and tales of Vikings turning their ships in a nearby bay to redouble their efforts at invading Britain.
(12) Ali added that a close friend had died in a shipwreck while trying to reach Australia three years ago.
(13) It has been suggested that Shakespeare's lifelong concern with themes of exile and separation, from the shipwreck that splits open The Comedy of Errors to the relentless journeying that propels the final romances, is a sign of his remarkable powers of empathy, even, as the critic Northrop Frye repeatedly argued, a mythic image of our voyage through life.
(14) Italy’s prime minister called for an emergency European summit this week to deal with the deepening migrant crisis off its southern coast after as many as 950 men, women and children were feared to have drowned in a Mediterranean shipwreck.
(15) The RSC's mini-season of three "shipwreck plays" – Comedy of Errors , Twelfth Night and The Tempest – illuminates this most potent of Shakespearean themes .
(16) Ocean in Google Earth will let users dive below the surface of the water to examine wildlife, mountains and shipwrecks in this murky world.
(17) Lara is already going through a lot – shipwreck, major injury, a friend's kidnapping, the threat of death – and adding sexual assault to the mix might just be over-egging the pudding.
(18) Next week, I get to interview a real shipwreck survivor who covered thousands of miles singlehanded, only to be turned over by a giant wave on his way home.
(19) In 1769, the first civilian rescue society was established to look after shipwrecked persons.
(20) Alongside survivors of the shipwreck and those who assisted the rescue operation, the victims' relatives are taking part in a series of commemorative events which will culminate on Sunday evening in a minute's silence marking the exact time the 114,500-tonne ship crashed in the Tyrrhenian Sea.