Example sentences for: shipwrecks

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

  • A special section is devoted to shipwrecks on the notorious Sable Island.

  • In the 19th century, Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours became the “Sailors’ Chapel,” to which survivors of shipwrecks brought model ships they had carved as offerings of thanksgiving.

  • Once re-established in Java, the Dutch attempted to increase their influence and also to prevent the Balinese from plundering ships wrecked off the coast (the Balinese considered shipwrecks to be gifts from the deities of the seas, and felt it would be insulting to refuse them).

  • When it was built in 1864 it helped drastically reduce the number of shipping accidents and shipwrecks, but it was unpopular with the native people who relied on lucrative salvage activities to make a living.

  • The Spaniards never bothered to settle in the Bahamas, but the number of shipwrecks attest that their galleons frequently passed through the archipelago en route to and from the Caribbean, Florida, Bermuda, and their home ports.


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