Example sentences for: shipwreck

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

  • For non-epopts: reading these is like reading Jane Austen--with every so often a hellish sea battle or shipwreck.

  • The Cuban government says González should be returned to his Cuban father, claiming that his mother, who perished in the shipwreck, had kidnapped him.

  • 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.

  • (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.


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