How To Use flotsam In A Sentence
- Mr Boardman said: ‘I was out walking with my wife and dog when we happened across a little cove and we found the creature in the flotsam that had been washed up.’
- These intagli would be interesting relics for collectors of such flotsam and jetsam of a ruined dynasty. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
- They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
- It perforated the sheer fabric of her chemise, ran through her body and whipped up the flotsam in her heart.
- Insects and worms hitchhike the ocean on bits of flotsam, coming ashore wherever the winds and currents take them.
- You are encouraged to help identify flotsam sources, get involved in local beach clean-ups and campaign for responsible disposal of waste by marine industries.
- He would walk along the beach collecting the flotsam and jetsam that had been washed ashore.
- According to these proposals, ‘genuine’ asylum seekers, it seems, are simply flotsam washed up by the tidal wave of persecution.
- But unknown to Iphigenia, he was no ordinary fisherman, but a sea wizard, one who lived from the flotsam which washed up upon the beaches and shores of the world.
- I tell him I don't know what either flotsam or jetsam mean beyond their colloquial connotations.
