How To Use Flotsam In A Sentence
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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.’
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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
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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.
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It perforated the sheer fabric of her chemise, ran through her body and whipped up the flotsam in her heart.
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Insects and worms hitchhike the ocean on bits of flotsam, coming ashore wherever the winds and currents take them.
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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.
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He would walk along the beach collecting the flotsam and jetsam that had been washed ashore.
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According to these proposals, ‘genuine’ asylum seekers, it seems, are simply flotsam washed up by the tidal wave of persecution.
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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.
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I tell him I don't know what either flotsam or jetsam mean beyond their colloquial connotations.
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She turned the Zodiac and headed at a sedate speed for the invisible piece of flotsam that was Kyle Donovan.
JADE ISLAND
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The sandal was a present from Sylvia, who mounted an exhibition of flotsam temple shoes on Hokkaido a few years ago.
Wildwood
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The homeless sleep in doorways and stations - we step over their bodies like so much human flotsam.
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One of the most admirable aspects of sailing and yacht racing is that, using only Nature's powers - the wind and the tide - a sailing craft leaves no flotsam and jetsom in its wake, only pristine waters.
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We ran and we danced among the flotsam and jetsum of out digital lives, scattering bon mots like candies to the poor and needy children around us.
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I can rummage around in the so-called dustbin of history for aesthetic flotsam like sewing patterns, and then wear them in front of my computer.
Again with the Summer - A Dress A Day
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Flotsam and jetsam drifted from the yacht, some having already washed ashore.
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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.
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While there are trained artists--perhaps inspired by Gaudí's early 20th-century mosaics or Marcel Duchamp's readymades--who sculpt and construct large-scale artworks made from repurposed cast offs, many more are dreamers with ordinary day jobs who abhor waste, have a penchant for collecting, and seize upon an unstoppable urge to create something beautiful from the flotsam and jetsam modern life.
Trash Art: California's Artistic Recycling Revolution
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The homeless sleep in doorways and stations - we step over their bodies like so much human flotsam.
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The roil and swell of popular feeling flings all sort of flotsam and jetsam into our public debate.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can well imagine the reports from Normandy: the reporter would have his back to the sea so the camera caught the wreckage, the metal flotsam, the blasted craft and bobbing bodies.
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There were deserters and rejects from the American army, one or two curious fragments of human flotsam from the Spanish Civil War, and the first American negro Raymond had known, a huge, clever man, rumoured to be a lawyer from West Virginia.
Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy
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After a few more shops all the geegaws bled together and I could take no more fabulous flotsam.
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Memories were surfacing in his mind, like flotsam from a shipwreck, drawn upwards from the deep.
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In addition to this flotsam, which is found in large masses in every big city, the militia which I mentioned consists of many adherents of an international European republic.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle
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The crowd in the echoing hall of the airport ebbs and flows like flotsam and jetsam in a dirty river.
Christianity Today
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A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects.
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In fact, among all the detritus, flotsam, and muck, this movie could serve as a strategically tossed life preserver.
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The subject of the present notice was picked up at sea, a child, and, under the provisions of maritime law concerning flotsam, jetsam, and lagan, was appropriated by the crew.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
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Don't let all the flotsam and jetsam of life overwhelm you so that you can no longer judge what is important.
The Sun
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Our flotsam was a trick of the fading light on the sea, just where Broken Rocks raised the swell a little; but in the exquisite, the almost menacing, calm of the evening, we leaned on our oars and watched for a while.
A Poor Man's House
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Flotsam and jetsam get washed ashore in huge quantities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Obviously, with every man and his dog being able to update the pages of such a site, there was always a very real risk that idiots would try to fill it with disinformation, advertising and other worthless flotsam.
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Outside, a man is pushing a battered shopping cart filled with flotsam from the road: crumpled cans, a discarded flask, a pillow.
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The water was full of flotsam and refuse.
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Shirt and his attendants mentioned that cedar-logs and other attractive flotsam bestrewed the beaches, and volunteered to conduct the strangers to the best places on the understanding that they, being alien and hostile, should remain under the protection of the rifle-carrying white men.
Tropic Days
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On the beach, icebergs are washed up like flotsam.
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Even with a limited skill set, he should have enough left in the tank to handle the flotsam that occupies the middle ranks of the division.
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I love how when you look up flotsam in the dictionary it says jetsam.
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It is as if the novel's intellectual and ideological muddle is merely a superficial layer of flotsam bobbing on a boiling sea of emotion.
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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.
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The Federal Government is considering several measures to reduce the flotilla of flotsam that's clogging seas around northern Australia, the vast bulk of it coming from countries to our North.
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I mean, even if the wreckerator reversed the flotsam, there is no way ה (he) and נ (nun) would be adjacent on a dreidel, and even if I give the Chinese manufacturer of this awful piece of plastic the benefit of a doubt and say it's a ג (gimel) rather than a נ (nun), they are still in the wrong order.
Chappy Chanukah
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The tidal shoreline swamps of Piscataway Creek and the shore of Potomac River often have much large woody debris and flotsam from floods.
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They will capture as many images as possible using digital cameras and traditional techniques of painting and drawing, and will take part in a land art project using flotsam and driftwood.
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Nigel?), was so cultured that he said, "Nobody in the whole world knows it, save you and I," and referred to "flotsam and jetson" as he was swimming out into the path of the rising sun.
Love Conquers All
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But, as I walk through here, the mud that is caked and the flotsam and jetsam.
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Flotsam gives shelter to sandflies and other food for the small flocks of wading birds that kept wheeling in like a single organism, landing or taking off on the instant in perfect unison: sandlings, ringed plover, gadwall and dunlin.
Wildwood
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The glorious mix of water, blood, flotsam, and jetsam crackles resoundingly with a new life.
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The first day was clear of contacts, but we saw a lot of flotsam, tree trunks, containers washed off ships, etc.
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The ever forward-thinking '80s music vanguard is helping to drown out the sound of online flotsam with a new music and entertainment recommendation system.
Celebrity-Backed Startups
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These, weighing altogether fifty tons, were pushed along a pair of rails on the top of the 'sudd' (or thick growth of weeds and flotsam) till they fell with a tremendous splash into the opening.
Chatterbox, 1906
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Now the region was strewn with floating wreckage, the sort of flotsam that cried out to any Sentient that battle had raged across the Void a scant time previous.
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It's finding a shell or bit of interesting flotsam washed up during the last high tide or a few oysters that can be opened and washed down with a glass of wine back home.
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And I’d argue that his ability to nose out a story and piece it together from all the flotsam and jetsam is just what we’ve been missing in national journalism.
Matthew Yglesias » Who Is Murray Waas?
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She couldn't see herself as a contessa or a German baroness lording it over the flotsam that made up the jet set.
YELLOW BIRD
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The hideous roses were flotsam and she was cast away on a tide of detritus.
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But there was no suspicious heap lying grounded in the shallows, no flotsam or jetsam at all.
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Any other ship - any other dead ship - would have joined the rest of the flotsam and debris that formed the Pendulum Nebula, and been moved around by the whims of solar winds.
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There remained a chance that Foden was not actually flotsam himself but the decrepit beachcomber who'd learned to value it.
THE QUEST FOR K
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She turned the Zodiac and headed at a sedate speed for the invisible piece of flotsam that was Kyle Donovan.
JADE ISLAND
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Though the refrain for years has been that the picture book market is all but gone, critical acclaim for works such as Caldecott winner Flotsam, the rise of graphic novels and avid interest in manga may be turning that around.
The WritingYA Weblog: Odd Lots
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While there are trained artists--perhaps inspired by GaudÃ's early 20th-century mosaics or Marcel Duchamp's readymades--who sculpt and construct large-scale artworks made from repurposed cast offs, many more are dreamers with ordinary day jobs who abhor waste, have a penchant for collecting, and seize upon an unstoppable urge to create something beautiful from the flotsam and jetsam modern life.
Trash Art: California's Artistic Recycling Revolution
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They are also often the flotsam and jetsam on the tide of technological development.
The Global Marketplace
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Once there he meets the flotsam and jetsam who congregate at a roadhouse belonging to a white-suited gent nicknamed Panama because of his romantic tales of foreign adventure.
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Being a conservative does not let you flit like some light of weight flotsam and jetsam from party to party; to be persuaded by charlatans like Blair or to take up each new trendy theory thought up by political pigmies.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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But missed in the economic floodwaters among the flotsam was the waterlogged performance of Wal-Mart.
The Unraveling
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It has the habit of swimming in small shoals around patches of flotsam, or floating logs, and is attracted by rafts or drifting boats.
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In a show that seeks cockily to rewrite art history, the flotsam is sprinkled generously with jewels.
Times, Sunday Times
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With all those heads twizzling by and all manner of human flotsam and jetsam floating by it is often impossible to keep your finger on the pulse of things.
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Yet even on the edge of the Atlantic, in a city long dominated by Irish and Italians, I feel like a civilised anachronism, a sophisticated piece of flotsam on the tide of history.
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He would walk along the beach collecting the flotsam and jetsam that had been washed ashore.
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Huge eddies pulled the waves into massive waterspouts that devoured the flotsam and survivors on the river.
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Beside the hibachi was a sheet of newspaper with a neat arrangement of little piles of unidentifiable flotsam on it.
Burning Water
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The vision of her body, flotsam on the water, is at once both corpse-like and strangely beautiful.
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But we had not been at anchor in Plymouth Sound more than twenty four hours, and he hardly had time to communicate with the gentlemen-dealers in marine stores, when I received a notification from some lynx-eyed agent of the present admiral of the coast (who is a lawyer, I believe), requesting the immediate delivery of the anchor and cable, -- upon the plea of his seignoral rights of _flotsam_ and _jetsam_.
Newton Forster The Merchant Service
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The probability is that the remnants of a once proud fleet will end up as broken flotsam, landfill at the council dump.
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Howard's mind clung to her voice as a drowning man clings to a piece of flotsam from a ship-wreck.
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Flotsam gives shelter to sandflies and other food for the small flocks of wading birds that kept wheeling in like a single organism, landing or taking off on the instant in perfect unison: sandlings, ringed plover, gadwall and dunlin.
Wildwood
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Like so much flotsam and jetsam washed up on the mellow Asconan shore by the plague-ridden sea of capitalist civilization.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The great irony is, of course, with all this information - so much of it flotsam and jetsam - here am I, spieling.
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The bright new paintwork on the ship's funnel and wheelhouse stand proud against the murky grey waters of the River Clyde, like a symbol of hope amidst the flotsam and jetsam.
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We wandered along the shore, stepping over the flotsam that had washed up in the night.
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My nationwide cohort of subs included the flotsam and jetsam of the economic downturn -- unemployed realtors, bankers, nurses.
Carolyn Bucior: Lesson: Substitute Teaching's 'F' -- What Gwyneth and Cameron Can Teach Education Experts
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I'm back to work tomorrow, at my clinic dealing with whatever post-long-weekend flotsam washes up in my walk-in box.
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But being seen in the shimmering waters, when you're but a speck of flotsam to a passing ship, was never a sure bet.
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jetsam, or goods cast overboard and sunk under water; flotsam, or goods afloat on the surface; and ligan, or goods sunk, but tied to buoys, etc., to savethem
The Volokh Conspiracy » Flotsam, Jetsam, and __:
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What flotsam does this send floating through the mind, just below the surface?
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They particularly like buoys, pilings, wrecks, anchored boats, flotsam, etc., and will sometimes congregate around these objects.
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The dive-site looks a tip as well, because blocks of granite of various sizes line the shore, along with flotsam and junk.
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We are not just flotsam and jetsam tossed about on waves beyond our control.
Times, Sunday Times
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So I urge you to keep your child out of kindergarten, because kindergarten will only lead to first grade and then thegrim sequence of grade after grade begins and takes its inexorable toll on the mind born fertile but gradually numbed by the pedants who impose on the captive child the flotsam of their own infecundity.
Archive 2007-08-01
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I never thought I would care about the difference between creek and brook, sea-marks and flotsam, guzzles and gutters.
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It was as if she was swallowed up inside a whale aslosh with flotsam.
Systems Failures: James Wolcott
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The federation is a worthless body of flotsam - we should invite the university to take over: it can't possibly do any worse.
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Frenchman — a trifle of flotsam from a mid-ocean wreck and landed to grow up among the farmer-sailormen of the coast of Maine.
The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London
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He would walk along the beach collecting the flotsam and jetsam that had been washed ashore.
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The flat verges were littered with seaweed and plastic flotsam.
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a Frenchman — a trifle of flotsam from a mid-ocean wreck and landed to grow up among the farmer-sailormen of the coast of Maine.
CHAPTER XVIII
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We wandered along the shore, stepping over the flotsam that had washed up in the night.
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The beaches are wide and filled with interesting flotsam and jetsam .
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Camps were set up to shelter the flotsam and jetsam of the war.
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Rourke describes its dark banks well: its trolley-littered bed, its murky depths, its surface covered in flotsam and streaks of oily pollution.
Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke
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A slick of coral larvae encounters pumice (or bottles or other flotsam), and the larvae settle on it as a new home.
