How to Use shipwreck in a Sentence

shipwreck

1 of 2 noun

• Divers searched the sunken shipwreck.
• Only a few sailors survived the shipwreck.
• The crew narrowly avoided shipwreck.
• The shipwreck was spotted during the survey of the lake.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
• The shipwreck: 1740, the Royal Navy ship the Wager, off Brazil.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• The shipwreck is full of treasures that date back to the Ptolemaic era.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 July 2022
• The shipwreck scene that opens the play is ear-splitting in its shrieking and wailing.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• The timbers belonged to the 1693 shipwreck of the Santo Cristo de Burgos.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 July 2022
• The news of the shipwreck comes on the heels of another discovery in the region this summer.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
• The story of the shipwreck of an 18th century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• The story of the shipwreck of an 18th-century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• Rhaenyra and Daemon sneak off to screw under the stars beneath the bleached remains of a shipwreck.
  — Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2022
• There’s a breezy messiness to the shipwreck chic aesthetic.
  — Gaby Wilson, ELLE, 23 Mar. 2023
• There is a small chance the timbers might be from a different shipwreck.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2022
• Next week, the mystery of the ocean floor, a mammoth mapping project, submersibles, shipwrecks, and more.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Jan. 2024
• Much of the footage from that voyage to the shipwreck in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean has never been released to the public — until now.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
• Their mission: Locate the shipwreck, buried beneath the frozen sea.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2022
• The Raft of the Medusa, a depiction of an 1816 shipwreck in which the captain abandoned scores of passengers to die.
  — WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• The old schooner Jackson had sailed around the South Pacific sank in the bay one day and was pulled up onto the beach and became the shipwreck bar.
  — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
• The islands are paradise for divers, with coral reefs, caves, blue holes, and shipwrecks to explore.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
• Other emeralds from the shipwreck were put up for auction in 2017.
  — Town & Country, 11 Nov. 2022
• The story of the shipwreck of an 18th-century British warship.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• In total, the auction house sold 270 items from the shipwreck earlier this month.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• The Great Lakes' frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards.
  — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2023
• Weighed down by sandbags and pipes, the Titan began its two-and-a-half-hour descent to the storied shipwreck.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
• The remains of an unknown shipwreck first emerged from sediment near the coastal town of Puerto Madryn in 2004.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
• In recent years, the shipwreck could be seen submerged on a sunny day with clear water.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2022
• El Vencedor is the location of a shipwreck (a tuna trawler sunk in the early 1980’s), and is known to have bull sharks all year round.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• The Neches River is home to roughly a dozen other shipwreck sites.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
• In the past, one of the lighthouse keeper’s jobs was to go out in his boat and try to save the people flung into the water during a shipwreck in his area.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023

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shipwreck

2 of 2 verb

• The whereabouts of the Ironton have long been a mystery to shipwreck hunters ... until now.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Mar. 2023
• What if they were shipwrecked on an island and popped out Baby Tarzan?
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 1 May 2017
• All the prodigal daughters, abandoned sons, and shipwrecked girls next door got that way for a reason.
  — Nicholas Dawidoff, New Republic, 15 Sep. 2017
• In season one, she was captured by drüskelle, Fjerdan soliders, and then shipwrecked with Matthias, one of the drüskelle.
  — Town & Country, 18 Mar. 2023
• In the beginning of the play, Miranda is charmed by the human beings shipwrecked on her island.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 26 June 2018
• Jamie and Claire saved him—only to then shipwreck in Colonial Georgia, which is where season four will pick up.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 May 2018
• Eva and her crew must decide whether to rescue the shipwrecked or survive the winter with their last remaining food.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
• They had been shipwrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• In fact, there was no one at all when my sister and I, together with others, were shipwrecked in Lesbos.
  — Roberto Brunelli, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• The nets were like an islet that shipwrecked sailors swam to, and then, depending on their luck, were either rescued or figured out how to survive.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Parents are tired and impatient; their dreams were shipwrecked.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• In recent weeks, Italy and Malta have denied access to their ports to three ships that had rescued hundreds of migrants shipwrecked off the Libyan coast.
  — Valentina Pop, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• Swiss Family Treehouse Walk up the 116 steps to see the home the Robinson family made in the trees after being shipwrecked on an island.
  — Mark Eades, Orange County Register, 4 May 2017
• The goddess spirited her away to be a priestess in the land of the Taurians, where the local cult of Artemis sacrifices any Greeks unlucky enough to get shipwrecked.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• Lagooned! is a musical comedy about a group of castaways that are shipwrecked in the middle of the South Pacific.
  — Independencelocalschools, cleveland.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• That footage showed Norman Reedus' Daryl shipwrecked, floating unconscious on top of an overturned lifeboat.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 26 June 2023
• The controversial coming-of-age drama was released in 1980 and saw the pair play cousins who become lovers and have a child after they're shipwrecked on an island.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• The title refers to Prospero’s ability to control the climate, causing the storm that shipwrecks his enemies on the island and allows him to turn the tables on them.
  — Terry Byrne, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• One by one, hundreds of boats shipwrecked by Hurricane Irma are being salvaged from the bottom of lakes and waterways across the state.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• The valley—after the water returns to the steep-sided channel—is hard to cross, all sucking mud and shipwrecked trees in a prairie that is accustomed to being dry and treeless.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2020
• The Red Turtle A man is shipwrecked on a desert isle with only sand crabs for company, until something magical happens to him.
  — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 8 May 2017
• The fortune-teller predicted that Herman would soon be shipwrecked, leaving Mrs. Aberg a widow.
  — Longreads, 4 May 2023
• Ferdinand, a young Neapolitan prince, is shipwrecked on a remote island and believes his father perished at sea.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 26 June 2023
• In the play, Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian, are shipwrecked and separated.
  — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• For sandy beaches and legendary surf conditions, to historic lighthouses, shipwreck diving sites, and wild horses, the Outer Banks is a unique East Coast beach vacation.
  — Hannah Lee Leidy, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2021
• The retired radiologist and former Navy captain was shipwrecked in the Bahamas; crash-landed a small plane on a Maine pond after the engine cut out; and was stuck on a mountain in Greece after injuring his leg on a scenic bike ride.
  — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
• The gorgeous 2018 card game Shipwreck Arcana is a great example of a cooperative survival game: To win, at least one person must survive being shipwrecked.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2019
• Others have popped up in geothermal pipes, and some have been found in archaeological digs, such as several from a Hellenistic period shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2017
• Prominent historians and shipwreck experts in Michigan doubt the Liberts' claim.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
• The ordinariness of his tale and its unexceptional heroes—Ananda and his uncle Radhesh, an avatar for Odysseus—implies that, in the end, everyone is wandering and shipwrecked.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018

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