shipwreck

How To Use shipwreck In A Sentence

• The dig, which began Monday, was a second priority for the divers, whose main goal was to survey the shipwreck site for storm damage.
• With the help of his faithful spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures up a great storm causing a shipwreck on the shore nearby.
• They offered a thanksgiving to God for their escape from the shipwreck.
• Viola is shipwrecked off the coast of Illyria and, separated from her twin Sebastian, believes him drowned.
• They gave the officers to understand that far from wishing to act as enemies, they were willing to afford the shipwrecked people all the assistance in their power; but these barbarians shewed, on all occasions, a perfidiousness which is peculiar to the inhabitants of these climates; when the brig had sent biscuit on shore, they seized the half of it, and a few moments after, sold it at an exorbitant price, to those from whom they had stolen it. Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English
• The earliest written reference to Malta is in the biblical account of Saint Paul's shipwreck.
• Most of the shipwrecks in the roadstead here are due to these south-eastern squalls.
• It was like a shipwreck, where the resourceful child passenger becomes the first mate.
• It was on such a ship that St Paul reached Italy after having been shipwrecked on Malta.
• 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so candid. Sole Music