SHIPWRECK in a Sentence
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28 example sentences for SHIPWRECK, such as:
1. Imagine you've been shipwrecked.
2. He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life.
3. It is shipwreck elsewhere than in the water.
4. You couldn't imagine a more deadly place for a shipwreck.
5. Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck.
2. He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life.
3. It is shipwreck elsewhere than in the water.
4. You couldn't imagine a more deadly place for a shipwreck.
5. Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck.
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Meanings and Examples of SHIPWRECK
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shipwreck
n. an accident that destroys a ship at sea
v. cause to experience shipwreck
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when the penal laws decree a shipwreck.
2 As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to prepare the shipwreck.
3 To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
4 The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, which finally attracted the attention of the swans.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
5 These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, and we have just explained why.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
6 It is shipwreck elsewhere than in the water.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
7 On the funeral pile, in shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
8 Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck.
9 We let the ships run before the gale, but the force of the wind tore our sails to tatters, so we took them down for fear of shipwreck, and rowed our hardest towards the land.
10 She thought of Tara and remembered Jonas Wilkerson, venomous as a rattler, at the foot of the front steps, and she grasped at the last straw floating above the shipwreck of her life.
11 You couldn't imagine a more deadly place for a shipwreck.
12 Look at me now--I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a bit of wreckage.
13 You said you were like a shipwrecked man clinging to some wreckage.
14 Well, I am like a shipwrecked woman clinging to some wreckage--no one to mourn for, no one to care for.
15 He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life.
Example Sentence:
1 No, the one that licked me was a lifeboat after a shipwreck, that is.
2 The Norwegian group looking to salvage the Maud is filming the shipwreck's final winter in Nunavut.
3 Imagine you've been shipwrecked.