Example sentences for: shipwrecked

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

  • Historically, Ito was home for five years to William Adams, the Englishman shipwrecked on the shores of Kyushu in the early 17th century who became an advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu.

  • On the northern coast of Eleuthera Island is Preacher’s Cave, the spot where the original adventurers are said to have been shipwrecked.

  • She prompts the island's Princess Nausicaa to cajole her father into letting her drive a year's worth of dirty clothes all the way down to the water's edge in a big ox-drawn wagon, to spend the day with her maids washing and drying them on the beach, right where Athena knew she would find the shipwrecked Odysseus.

  • Despite benign conditions and ample food, there were few visitors, and those who landed did so usually because they were shipwrecked.

  • Sir George Somers and his brave band of settlers were heading for Virginia in 1609 when they were shipwrecked on reefs just offshore from here.


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