Perhaps they themselves would be called to the work, to deal to some proud vessel the death blow as so many derelicts have done.
Sometimes--there is no sense in trying to avoid the truth--derelicts go for weeks and even months without being sighted.
If the Seneca keeps the lane of ocean travel free of derelicts and we cover the Ice Patrol of that same steamship lane, it ought to make a difference in the safety of ships at sea.
The Miami disposed of several more dangerous derelicts in the gulf of Mexico.
And so Captain McMahon heroically continued to bear his suffering rather than keep one of the derelicts from France out of a bed.
Those who knew him less withheld their judgment, but never failed to treat him with a courtesy not usual amongst the derelicts of an out-world camp.
Civilization is forgotten, buried deep beneath a mire of moral mud, accumulated in long years, and often in months only of association with the derelicts and "hard cases" of the world.
Mr. Yeats held them in a frying-pan over the little fire in the grate.
So absorbed was he in the topic of conversation, most appropriately the disappearance of material things, that he did not notice the catastrophe or the quick disappearance of the eggs among the coals.
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What would these derelicts of the catastrophe think of him if they guessed his real purpose?
He wondered why; they had been so crowded with derelicts of valiant armies, men and girls, who, having failed to save Russia with the rifle, had been preparing to rescue her with knowledge.
Wherever a red flag was pinned on the map, one of those derelicts was in command.
Huddled against the walls was a collection of human derelicts which seemed more in keeping with Dante's "Inferno" than the city which had set the world waltzing to The Merry Widow.
Strange as it may seem, these women this night were more or less refined in voice and language, and the most vile and vulgar epithets hurled at them by the men derelicts in the adjoining cells met with no response.
The village usually includes a boarding-house or a country inn for the homeless few, and here and there an almshouse shelters the few derelicts whom the public must support.
It is these effects of the urban environment that help to explain the socialderelicts that abound in the cities.
He forgot that these poor creatures, lounging upon the hard Windsor chairs, reading papers, or staring hopelessly before them while they smoked, were derelicts like himself.
Then, with a sigh of resignation, and some squaring of the shoulders, he prepared to face the curious eyes of the derelicts who haunted the "office" of the establishment.
I found the astronomer of the University gadding around after comets and other such odds and ends--tramps and derelicts of the skies.
It would probably have taken them a month to explore all the derelicts which were old enough to have Gormann series eighty radarscopes.
It got bigger and bigger and I think there are almost a thousand derelicts here now.
It is our rule to explore all such derelicts for a hint as to the fate of their crew before we consign them to the deep.
I have heard of derelicts that drifted longer than that," said the naval officer calmly.
I have heard ofderelicts that have followed the ocean currents for fifty years and more," declared the Lieutenant.
Here he deposited his luggage, locked the door, then walked back to the front parlour and, unobserved, slipped in, seating himself among the battered derelicts of the rear row.
There was something indescribably mournful and lonely in their appearance; they looked like withered leaves--brown moths blown to sea--derelicts of autumn.
What reason was there to suppose that these two derelicts ever again would drift together?
Many modern novels of the better class, and a great many modern poems, seem to me awash and wallowing like derelicts on the high seas.
There are plenty of derelicts in that sea as well as some human derelicts left afloat," Jim said, with a laugh.
They were derelicts of life, with the comradeship of despair as a link between them.
They two derelicts of life had much in common--the communion of sinners who had been so much sinned against.
If you want to hear pessimistic talks on home life, talk with those derelicts who spend most of their time at the Clubs.
The great ocean of business has many derelicts on it as a result of copying plans.
Occasionally derelicts are taken in tow and brought into port, where they are broken up, or if of any value, are reclaimed by owners, to whom they are delivered on a payment of 'salvage.
We are going to speak of a kind of derelicts out of ordinary experience.
No great difficulty will be felt in understanding that derelicts have a peculiar history in the Arctic regions.
Most of those present were derelicts of life, the failures of a great city washed up by the tide.
Already the marks of her six-weeks misery among the submerged derelicts of the city was beginning to be wiped from her mind like the memory of a bad dream from which she had awakened.
These were not people whose spirit had been driven out of them by monotony and bad luck, as it had been driven out of the derelicts who stood in the dock before them.
They are thederelicts of London, whom the changes in modern conditions have left hopelessly behind.
The foreigners are more capable, more thrifty, and more sober, and, save where brute strength is required, our own derelicts stand no chance before them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derelicts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
