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Example sentences for: shipwreck

How can you use “shipwreck” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

(The Misty Isles, the mythical homeland of Queen Aleta in Prince Valiant , once made a practice of slaughtering shipwreck survivors the moment they washed up on beaches.
González's Cuban-American relatives had argued that he should remain in the United States after he was rescued from a shipwreck in which his mother died.
Ibiza became a mere backwater, largely forgotten but for shipwreck or plague.
On the left is a full-size replica of the ship Deliverance, one of two vessels that Sir George Somers and his group of settlers rebuilt following the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in 1609.
Fitzedward Hall (1825-1901) traced his career as an etymologist to a shipwreck.