Words similar to shipwreck

Example sentences for: shipwreck

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

Ibiza became a mere backwater, largely forgotten but for shipwreck or plague.
The first recorded Europeans to arrive in the Yucatán, in 1511, were doubly unfortunate: a group of Spanish sailors survived a shipwreck on the coast of what is now Quintana Roo, only to be sacrificed by the Mayan natives.
Explorers found the oldest deep-sea shipwreck yet.
(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.
Fitzedward Hall (1825-1901) traced his career as an etymologist to a shipwreck.