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

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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
Fortunately, diamagnetism is too weak to cause shipwreck in this way. Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 - Presentation Speech
The captain's behavior is at the center of two probes, one led by Italian coast guard and one by Italian prosecutors, who are investigating in part whether Mr. Schettino's conduct after the shipwreck fomented a disorderly evacuation. Italian Captain: 'We Abandoned the Ship'
One of the great hazards for early immigrants was being shipwrecked on the uncharted Australian coast, where guiding beacons were few and far between.
Shipwrecked sailors, castaways, and that famous case some time back where a bunch of people were in a plane crash?
The story is of the utmost simplicity: after a shipwreck, a sailor is lost at sea.
Shipwreck stayed in Sgt. Slaughters amphibious tank with the Baroness, hes smooth like that. First Look: G.I. Joe's Complete Cast - General Hawk, Destro, Duke, Baroness, Ripcord, and More! « FirstShowing.net
The shipwrecked sailor scanned the horizon anxiously every morning.
When hundreds of survivors of a shipwrecked French fleet washed up on the beaches of Florida, they were put to the sword, beside a river the Spanish called Matanzas ("slaughters").
Impetuous storms and violent shipwrecks occur at sea.
The word intelligentsia was coined to describe the class of revolutionary thinkers who are at the center of Part II, Shipwreck. The Heart of the Matter: Wilson Versus the Rest
Because of sparse rainfall during the current season, I occasionally got 'shipwrecked' a handful of times but Oliver assures that the ride is even better in the wet summer months. Jamaica Gleaner Online
Bearing all that in mind, it would be a real shipwreck for an overwrought orchestrator to take the graceful skiff depicted on the cover of "Maiden Voyage" and overinflate it into a bulky ocean liner. Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville
He used to dive for coral and sunken treasures pinned under shipwrecks.
Putnam's service as a ranger, his capture and torture by Indians, his shipwreck and exploits during the British invasion of Cuba won him military laurels.
Behind the high walls, hidden by a long screen of ilexes, you are suddenly back in the eighteenth century, surrounded by the obelisks and mausolea of sea captains and corsairs, exiled aristocrats and shipwrecked plantation owners.
On his return from a visit to the Holy Land in about the year 667 he was shipwrecked off Taranto, where he landed and began to minister.
A family's holiday to Bermuda goes badly wrong when they are shipwrecked on an uncharted island. The Sun
The shipwreck was a harrowing experience.
He has been afloat for three days at a stretch, unable to land safely on any of those rocky islands, trapped on the boat, using a bucket for his latrine, running short of gas, putting life jackets on the carboys of drinking water in anticipation of shipwreck, and then finally limping back to Bahia without having captured a single chuckwalla—which for him represents the penultimate indignity. The Song of The Dodo
Besides the reef, the Keys are full of accidental and manmade shipwrecks to dive on.
An ideal young boy's yarn about the earnest young English couple shipwrecked off the coast of Darkest Africa.
While 19th century viewers of the original stereograph for Reaching for the Out of Reach #9 may have enjoyed the dramatic image of luckless passengers shipwrecked on the shores of Massachusetts, it's hard to imagine they would be similarly amused by the sad Victorian-looking characters stranded atop coffee bales and beneath umbrellas while the crippled ship looms like a set piece from some 3D Tim Burton film. The New York Public Library: New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands
The danger of shipwreck is much greater in dense fog.
On the way, a great windstorm causes a shipwreck and a lone sailor is found on the ‘Island of the Soul.’
If mankind generally are the shipwrecked survivors of some pre-Adamitic cataclysm, set adrift in these little open boats of humanity to make one more trial to reach the shore, -- as some grave theologians have maintained, -- if, in plain English, men are the ghosts of dead devils who have "died into life," (to borrow an expression from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The operator of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia said it formally suspended the captain who left the sinking vessel with passengers on board. What's News—
Each summer there is a one- or two-week field trip to survey historical shipwrecks and the submerged (but once-dry) coastline of the Solent.
Our tour of Corsica ends at Bastia, which has several shipwrecks and a number of aircraft wrecks.
The danger of shipwreck is much greater in fog.
Most activities take place around the coast and range from swimming, sailing, surfing and snorkelling to diving on a dozen shipwrecks. Times, Sunday Times
Wreck exposed by Cyclone Yasi identified A SHIPWRECK exposed when Cyclone Yasi hit north Queensland has been identified as the brigantine Belle, lost in 1880. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Most of this Indian section, which like the rest of the book rides on a great deal of research, is smoothly convincing; we sanction it without quarrel as the prelude to the real event, the shipwreck.
Widely regarded as the Mount Everest of diveable shipwrecks is the ocean liner HMHS Britannic.
ROME—The operator of the Costa Concordia formally suspended the shipwrecked vessel's captain Thursday, as investigators scrutinized his final maneuvers with his stricken ship and reports emerged that he enjoyed a pre-wreck meal and wine with a 25-year-old woman. Scrutiny on Captain's Final Actions
US immigration officials have again delayed moves start repatriating six - year - old Cuban shipwreck survivor Elian Gonzalez.
There were a record number of entries from yellow submarines, tall ships, small ships, rafts, sea serpents, to shipwrecks and fishing boats and lots more besides.
For those who have dived upon an untouched shipwreck the experience is described as very moving indeed.
I am like a shipwrecked survivor holding fast to the debris, awaiting the arrival of the scheduled liner.
In 1609, a group of British colonists led by Sir George Somers was shipwrecked and stranded on the islands for 10 months.
He maintained a 30 ton lugger which he used to rescue shipwrecked sailors off the coast within sight of his home on the cliffs at Ramsgate, while also supplementing his income with salvage operations.
Memories were surfacing in his mind, like flotsam from a shipwreck, drawn upwards from the deep.
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Helicopters fly in appalling weather to succour shipwrecked mariners.
You just know the headlines around the country are going to have the word "shipwrecked" in it. Chicagotribune.com -
He died in a shipwreck off the south coast.
He, a poor shipwrecked man, had equal honor with her.
The World Heritage area includes Aboriginal middens and sacred sites as well as historical shipwrecks and ruins of early European settlement.
The Prestige broke up about 150 miles off the Coast of Death - so named because of the frequency of shipwrecks - after running into trouble during a storm.
He said the ship was being tugged to a shipwrecking yard when the tugboat's cables broke and high tides pushed the tanker to shallow water where it ran aground.
It would seem tantamount to saying they were stuck with what he had done, marooned like shipwrecked sailors. PROSPECT HILL
Access to the port was difficult and dangerous as evidenced by the number of shipwrecks.
The Museum houses an impressive collection of artefacts and pictures relating to many famous ships and shipwrecks.
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. Charles Caleb Colton
The mystery of a shipwreck which has tantalised naval historians on both sides of the Atlantic for more than a quarter of a century is finally about to be solved.
The aim was to reduce the heavy toll of shipwrecks caused by the crude navigational method of dead reckoning. The Times Literary Supplement
There have been many shipwrecks along this dangerous stretch of coastline.
Argonauts of the future, or shipwrecked sailors of the past, we move from actual space to imaginary space, from inwardness to outwardness, from intimacy to immensity.
The angelfish were fighting as always, chasing each other around the submerged plastic shipwreck at the bottom. A KING'S RANSOM
After trucks fought their way through hostile towns to resupply us, I found myself hoarding rations like a shipwreck survivor.
US immigration officials have again delayed moves start repatriating six - year - old Cuban shipwreck survivor Elian Gonzalez.
Scuba divers and snorkelers explore historic shipwrecks and artificial reefs.
Further shipwrecks and captivities followed. Times, Sunday Times
There are the rambling Egyptian narratives, the tale, for example, of the Two Brothers and the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailors, which scholars have only recently replevined from the buried papyrus. Introduction
It was like a shipwreck, where the resourceful child passenger becomes the first mate.
Their account of the shipwreck in Bermuda does not explain how the leader of the expedition managed to restore control when the island offered land for the taking and ready means of subsistence.
Far from being shipwrecked on the coast at St Andrew's, the saint almost certainly made his appearance in Scotland within a bag carried by Acca, an abbot from the North of England.
There were fifteen sick and shipwrecked junkmen there, covered with sores, who looked very far down in the scale of humanity. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Poor bastard must wake up in a shipwreck every morning - hands on the mast and seamen everywhere.
Lambert, a focused, unostentatious man who created such reality formats as Faking It and Shipwrecked, does not seem too bothered by his critics.
After the requisite number of shipwrecks and duels in suitably exotic locations, he duly wins her. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
After the requisite number of shipwrecks and duels in suitably exotic locations, he duly wins her. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
The aim was to reduce the heavy toll of shipwrecks caused by the crude navigational method of dead reckoning. The Times Literary Supplement
The vessel was shipwrecked
Cabeza de Vaca called his Florida best sellerNaufragios , or “Shipwrecks.” Dream State
They took their name from the piece of equipment which was used in the 19th century to rescue shipwrecked vessels.
Watch curious turtles float towards you and fluorescent fish weave around a shipwreck. The Sun
The lifeboat brought off most of the shipwrecked sailors.
The shipwreck of the tanker has caused one of the worst oil spills in recent years.
Property insurance developed in response to the hazards faced by medieval exporters, for example losses from shipwreck, piracy, or theft.
Of course our shipwrecked friend had to retail his story to the woman, and then learned from her that the island was a very large one, with a name unpronounceable by English lips, that it was very thinly inhabited, that it consisted almost entirely of pasture land, and that "the laird" owned a large portion of it, including the little fishing village of The Eagle Cliff
The area is a famously dangerous stretch of coastline and is the site of thousands of shipwrecks. Times, Sunday Times
It is a fable recalled by a lonely man who lies between the clumps of grass on the sands by a river (the scene looks deceptively lyrical), like a survivor washed ashore after a shipwreck.
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. Charles Caleb Colton
To find out why this happened and when we must go back to the thirteenth history and a shipwreck off the Wexford coast.
Various environmental forces eventually break down shipwrecks, but Ballard suspects more than natural forces are at work in this case.
Imagine you've been shipwrecked.
Watch curious turtles float towards you and fluorescent fish weave around a shipwreck. The Sun
With a treacherous shoreline and marine traffic for many thousands of years, the coast of Ireland is strewn with shipwrecks, or sites where vessels have foundered.
It has taken 13 men and shipwrecked them on a tropical island. Times, Sunday Times
Here, you can explore untouched reefs and many shipwrecks.
Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
The agency stress that it is illegal to keep something, however small or seemingly insignificant, from a shipwreck without advising the Receiver of Wreck.
There have been shipwrecks here, for as long as there has been shipping.
Now shipwreck looters brave a police helicopter circling overhead as they carry their spoils away by bicycle.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Edmund Burke
In Book I, his ship is blown off course and Gulliver is shipwrecked.
We had seen guillemots, gannets, razorbills, puffins and cormorants by the time we reached the first of the four shipwrecks we would dive over this weekend.
In 1528 a Spanish exploration party leaving from Mexico became shipwrecked off the coast of Florida.
the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore
They narrowly escaped shipwreck in a storm in the North Sea.
He survived another shipwreck to make it to Germany. Times, Sunday Times
A highly respected British diver has died during the exploration of a shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Times, Sunday Times
September 1999 Chavez in office for 8 months, 60 cars "shipwrecked", one death due to heart attack. 09/18/2005 - 09/25/2005
In several previous shipwrecks sailors have been driven to cannibalism.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, there were other mariners shipwrecked or abandoned and subsequently rescued.
Beatty was shipwrecked off the coast of Africa.
Whether its their isolation, their oddity, or their relationship with shipwreck and disaster, there's barely a lighthouse in the world that hasn't got some creepy and curious history, some tale of hauntings or sea monsters.
Shipwreck D is so well-preserved that cord tied in a V-shape at the top of the ship's wooden mast is still clearly visible.
The animal threatens to munch through thousands of Viking vessels and other historic shipwrecks, scientists warn.
But wading out into the crystal water, I had to remind myself that only 50m away was the largest accessible shipwreck in the world of recreational diving.
Across from the car showrooms with gleaming Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, the 18th-century house – once home to former prime minister George Canning – is crammed, not just with books (120,000) but with manuscripts, correspondence, ranging from the famous to the obscure, illuminated miniatures and paraphernalia such as shipwrecked leather (for book binding) and Spanish civil war flags. A working life: The rare-book dealer
The aim was to reduce the heavy toll of shipwrecks caused by the crude navigational method of dead reckoning. The Times Literary Supplement
The telegraphs with their enamel faceplates remained bolted to the floors, and that's not something you often see on a shipwreck off Britain.
Unesco has adopted a new cultural convention to protect historic shipwrecks and underwater artefacts from pillaging.
We had seen guillemots, gannets, razorbills, puffins and cormorants by the time we reached the first of the four shipwrecks we would dive over this weekend.
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He survived another shipwreck to make it to Germany. Times, Sunday Times
He was drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Spain.
Devil's Reef, the Devil's Horse-shoe or by some other term ominous of shipwrecks. Sketches from Concord and Appledore
The final part of the book concludes with life on shore, the coastguards, shipwrecks, beachcombers and history of the Ballinskelligs Cable Station.
Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I never have been round the world, never have been shipwrecked, ice-environed, tomahawked, or eaten. Reprinted Pieces
Now I have an artifact from every Florida shipwreck of the 1960's.
They offered a thanksgiving to God for their escape from the shipwreck.
Rather than causing shipwrecks, the little mermaid saves the life of a shipwrecked prince, then makes a bargain with the sea-witch, exchanging her tongue for a pair of human legs.
You have shipwrecked my career
The shipwrecked sailor scanned the horizon anxiously every morning.
The aim was to reduce the heavy toll of shipwrecks caused by the crude navigational method of dead reckoning. The Times Literary Supplement
The area is a famously dangerous stretch of coastline and is the site of thousands of shipwrecks. Times, Sunday Times
Accounts written by other mariners shipwrecked along the same coast chronicled brutal enslavement at the hands of ruthless desert nomads.
They narrowly escaped shipwreck in a storm in the North Sea.
World-Wide *** The operator of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia said the company has formally suspended the captain who steered the ship too close to a Tuscan island and left the sinking vessel with scores of passengers still on board. What's News—
Water hisses on the shoal at the point, slaps, recalls the shipwrecks that dot these shores as surely as towns dot the map.
She seemed to be in some distress, clutching her head and talking of a storm and a shipwreck in which all were lost. Times, Sunday Times
In her younger days, she cycled across Nepal, was shipwrecked off New Zealand and extradited from America.She was also a self-taught sailor, potter and toy maker.
Coins recovered from several shipwrecks, including the Republic, Central America, and Brother Jonathan have added to the Mint State populations, but often carry a modest premium because of the history associated with those pieces. Liberty Head Double Eagle, Without Motto, 1849-1866 : Coin Guide
Like a shipwrecked man clinging to a punctured lifebuoy, Scotland found it increasingly difficult to keep their heads above water and it is to their credit that they were not entirely submerged before the finish.
It was here, in AD60, that the Apostle St Paul was rumoured to have lived whilst shipwrecked.
Bearing all that in mind, it would be a real shipwreck for an overwrought orchestrator to take the graceful skiff depicted on the cover of "Maiden Voyage" and overinflate it into a bulky ocean liner. Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville
The aim was to reduce the heavy toll of shipwrecks caused by the crude navigational method of dead reckoning. The Times Literary Supplement
An energetic cast, headed by the unsinkable Helen Mirren as deposed Milanese royalty Prospera (here given a change of gender), cavorts through a digitally enhanced version of the Bard's tragicomic tale of exile, shipwreck, old wounds and young love set on a remote island. The Best of the Fest
The angelfish were fighting as always, chasing each other around the submerged plastic shipwreck at the bottom. A KING'S RANSOM
Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
Cillini were the last resting places for unbaptised babies for centuries but were also the burial grounds for shipwrecked sailors washed up on the Kerry shoreline.
Laptop computers, slates, tablets and the obligatory 'Argyll Shipwrecks' book sat open on the surrounding tables.
The roar of breakers from the distant beach crushed imaginary shipwrecks to splinters. Banano's Bar
The club whose players were once shipwrecked off the coast of Spain on their way to a series of friendlies in the Canary Islands needs lifesavers again.
As my week dragged on the end slowly floated into sight, like a passing ocean liner appearing to a shipwrecked beachcomber.
Henceforth, you are nothing but a shipwreck in my life that I have tided over. The Lady from the Sea
Turner lashed himself to masts in order to witness the fury of storms at sea, and he was fascinated by shipwrecks.
By the end of the novel he is spiritually shipwrecked on the Gold Coast, having visions of ancient goddesses.
How we steer makes the difference between shipwreck and delivering the goods at the final destination. Christianity Today
He was shipwrecked after visiting the island.
I was an avid wreck diver, and it was the ultimate shipwreck.
At least one of the two of them is capable of startlingly evocative language: Brian Jones's contributions to "Let It Bleed" were the "last flare from the shipwreck. So You Want To Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
And then our trademark and exclusive, shipwreck artifacts: This time we will have a genuine bronze astrolabe, the most complete and intact one we have ever handled, fully dated 1656 and well detailed, solid and stable, alidade intact, one of fewer than 80 pieces known and among the best from any wreck. Daniel Frank Sedwick Treasure and World Coin Auction #7 : Coin Collecting News
The old junk sailors even used to roll up a reed sail and use it for a life raft if they were shipwrecked. THE SHIPPING NEWS
I am like a shipwrecked survivor holding fast to the debris, awaiting the arrival of the scheduled liner.
He was drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Spain.
American actress Gloria Stuart, who played the elderly shipwreck survivor Rose in the film "Titanic", has died in her Los Angeles home Saturday night at the age of 100, US media reported.
Exotic coasts are often littered with old shipwrecks because of the frequent tempests that have ravaged them in times past - which means they probably still suffer them today.
The centre can arrange licences to dive on the two designated historic shipwrecks in the Sound of Mull, the Dartmouth and the Swan.
The leading character, Viola, is shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria during the opening scenes. Archive 2009-03-01
Se han recibido noticias de haber naufragado (shipwrecked) un buque en la costa de Marruecos (Morocco) y de haber varado otro en Almería. Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)
Where “Under the Shipwrecked Moon” triumphs, however, is in Alli’s extraordinary dream and hallucination sequences. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Property insurance developed in response to the hazards faced by medieval exporters, for example losses from shipwreck, piracy, or theft.
Today the morality tale of this York shipwrecked mariner is republished as ‘classic summer reading’.
We are enjoying your story with our usual unspeakableness; and I'm right glad you threw in the shipwreck and the mystery -- I like it. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885)
Off the Kent coast shipwrecked seamen managed to find a foothold don the Goodwin Sands, but they knew the rising sea would drown them if they were not taken off.
The American actress Gloria Stuart, who played a shipwreck survivor in the film Titanic, has died at the age of 100.
Watch curious turtles float towards you and fluorescent fish weave around a shipwreck. The Sun
The Sussex coast at this point lacks any rocks or cliffs, and shipwrecks were never common here.
There, two old keys made of gold and silver are exhibited in a window as part of the treasure of historical information salvaged from a local shipwreck.
The captain rationed the remaining water out among the shipwrecked passengers.
The publishers printed what was left, so readers remained unaware that the narrator survives the shipwreck.
It originally referred to someone who deliberately caused shipwrecks by using false beacons to lure ships onto rocks, or someone who plundered goods from wrecked ships.
The wreckers hauling in salvage nets look like fishermen at first glance, but closer inspection reveals the traces of a shipwreck.
Marty bundles the bunch into a limousine and Shipwreck is highly impressed with the nightlife of Los Angeles.
The boys listened breathlessly as the sailor detailed the story of the shipwreck.
He was flogged, shipwrecked, imprisoned, and followed around by a group of vehement opponents who wanted new followers of Jesus to revert back to old religious ideas.
They narrowly escaped shipwreck in a storm in the North Sea.
Storms and shipwrecks recur in his work as images of the mysterious ways of God, and Cowper's search for a retired and quiet life of simple domestic and rural pleasures gave him little sense of permanent security.
The disease rotted away his flesh till he died, limbless or faceless in fearful shipwreck, and unhouselled. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
Most of them are experienced divers looking for clear water and shipwrecks to explore.
Did she have a full Brazilian before she set sail on her cruise and learn since her shipwreck that bare is not the fashion here in Illyria? Lance Mannion:
Zeno the philosopher lost all his goods by shipwreck, [3821] he might like of it, fortune had done him a good turn: Opes a me, animum auferre non potest: she can take away my means, but not my mind. Anatomy of Melancholy
This medallion was part of a hoard found in an ancient shipwreck outside the coast of Corsica early in the 1970s.
They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea
If Robinson Crusoe had been shipwrecked with a chest full of British banknotes, they wouldn't have done him any good.
And given the opportunity for sublime spectacle, shipwreck was a main-stay of visual culture.
The captain rationed the remaining water out among the shipwrecked passengers.

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