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Example sentences for "shipwrecked"

Lexicographically close words:
shipps; ships; shipshape; shipt; shipwreck; shipwrecks; shipwright; shipwrights; shipyard; shipyards
  1. Despite the protests of the shipwrecked men, they were sent to sleep in the room used by the assistants.

  2. How do you expect me to wrastle with the rules an' regerlations, when for all we know that 'ere boat may be comin' in with a load of shipwrecked men?

  3. Another, flushed with folly and the fire Of lawless daring, laughed aloud and swore 'Twas shipwrecked sailors skulking on the shore, Our rule and custom here being known, to slay All strangers.

  4. O suffering heart, not fierce thou wast of old To shipwrecked men.

  5. The treaty was therefore signed, interdicting trade, but permitting whalers to obtain supplies in the three harbours of Nagasaki, Hakodate and Shimoda, and promising friendly treatment to shipwrecked sailors.

  6. This was a letter thanking him for kindness shown to shipwrecked sailors.

  7. Many years ago Mexicans placed goats on the island for the need of shipwrecked sailors, and these goats have traversed the wild oat slopes until they are like a network of trails.

  8. Dan scanned the sea like a shipwrecked mariner watching for a sail.

  9. Existence was become like the struggle for life upon some shipwrecked raft, where each sought safety by his neighbor's doom!

  10. Fraenzchen had picked out the spot for the poor, shipwrecked girl and a more suitable one could hardly have been found in the whole world.

  11. These parting words of his shipwrecked friend reminded Spielhagen only too keenly of his own unsettled career.

  12. The shipwrecked man had told nobody but myself.

  13. He was a shipwrecked mariner, in a sense: shipwrecked on the sea of Life and on the open Pacific as well.

  14. A good servant leaves his master no more than a captain deserts his shipwrecked vessel," said Doeninger, firmly.

  15. A good captain does not desert his shipwrecked vessel, but dies with it; and thus I will not desert my country either, but die with it.

  16. One o' the laws o' the country is that every shipwrecked person who happens to be cast ashore, be he dead or alive, is doomed to be roasted and eaten.

  17. I was inclined to think that he must have been a shipwrecked sailor, whose vessel had been lost here, and all the crew been drowned except himself and his dog and cat.

  18. And while you are gone I shall repose my weary limbs under the shelter of this bush, and meditate on the changefulness of all things earthly, with special reference to the forsaken condition of a poor shipwrecked sailor-boy!

  19. The Shipwrecked Sailor In sharp contradistinction to this is a tale of the Twelfth Dynasty, known as the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, preserved in the Hermitage Collection at Petrograd.

  20. About a year ago he was here, after being shipwrecked on the Dutch coast, and I assisted him to get home.

  21. He was one of the refugees leaving America in 1777, and being shipwrecked on his passage the monument was put up by his sister.

  22. He felt as if he could never see enough of this, his first shipwrecked sailor.

  23. I guess he's one of the shipwrecked sailors!

  24. I never thought you'd be so mean as to take anything from a shipwrecked sailor!

  25. Sisily hurried past a group scanning the distant heights for the gaunt outline of the descending cab, like shipwrecked mariners on the look-out for a sail.

  26. He approached them as one shipwrecked sailor might approach two other castaways marooned on the same rock.

  27. This man I took to myself when he was shipwrecked and ready to perish.

  28. At length he was shipwrecked on the shores of Phoeacia.

  29. And can there be nation so savage that it receiveth not shipwrecked men on its shore, but beareth arms against them, and forbiddeth them to land?

  30. He assists sailors in distress, undertakes the sending home of shipwrecked crews and passengers, attests averages.

  31. It is at present the universal conviction on the part of the States that goods and persons shipwrecked on the Open Sea do not thereby lose the protection of the flag State of the shipwrecked vessel.

  32. A shipwrecked man-of-war abandoned by her crew is no longer a State organ, nor does a man-of-war in revolt against her State and sailing for her own purposes retain her character as an organ of a State.

  33. But everything was shipwrecked on Luther's firm reservation that the decision must not be contrary to the Word of God; and on that question his conscience would not allow him to renounce the right of judging for himself.

  34. So there was to be a general election very soon in which the issue would lie between the League party and the shattered, shipwrecked Administration that had no leaders, no coherence, and scarcely a name to rally to.

  35. So might two shipwrecked passengers have stood on a frail raft waiting for the end, resigned but not unhopeful of a larger destiny beyond, while the elements boiled and roared around them.

  36. To have got free of the Caskets, to have eluded the rock, was a victory for the shipwrecked men; but it was a victory which left them in stupor.

  37. It was the confession of the shipwrecked crew of the Matutina, embodied in a report signed by the sheriff of Southwark and by the lord chancellor.

  38. The declaration of the shipwrecked men, read by the sheriff in the Southwark cell, came back to him clearly and intelligibly.

  39. The shipwrecked men turned towards the chief, their hope.

  40. That insolent light on the brink of the abyss showed like a defiance, and inspired shipwrecked men with a spirit of daring.

  41. This obstruction of rocks, simplified by night and sea, appeared to the shipwrecked men in the shape of a single dark band, a sort of black blot on the horizon.

  42. The shipwrecked people heard the dull sound of the waves being sucked within the submarine caves of the steep rock.

  43. The shipwrecked men observed this new complication without endeavouring to explain it to themselves.

  44. Shipwrecked men have never any but rough helpers.

  45. If there is another vessel within our range, inform me, as I wish to transfer the shipwrecked men if possible.

  46. We’ve picked up a shipwrecked crew and——” “What!

  47. I said that we had picked up a shipwrecked crew.

  48. Ajax the Lesser having offended Pallas-Athene by desecrating her temple on the night of the destruction of Troy, was shipwrecked off Cape Caphareus.

  49. Calypso cordially welcomed the forlorn and shipwrecked hero, and hospitably ministered to his wants.

  50. Here they found four shipwrecked youths, who proved to be the sons of Phryxus, and were greeted by Jason as his cousins.

  51. If the relief expedition was to be of use to the shipwrecked men it was important that food should be carried north.

  52. They found conditions frightful as regards the shelter, health, and sanitation of the shipwrecked whalers.

  53. Then it was that Mark deeply felt how much had been left him, by casting his lot on that beautiful and luxuriant crater, instead of reducing him to those dregs of misery which so many shipwrecked mariners are compelled to swallow!

  54. In striking the balance between the advantages and disadvantages of his own situation, as compared with that of other shipwrecked mariners, Mark confessed that he had quite as much reason to be grateful as to repine.

  55. Such were the leading disadvantages of the situation in which our mariners were placed, as compared with those into which most other shipwrecked seamen had been thrown.

  56. Bob caught the ducks, and tossed them overboard, when they floundered about and enjoyed themselves in a way that communicated a certain pleasure even to the desolate and shipwrecked men who had set them at liberty.

  57. The use of this property was a very different thing, now, from what it was when Mark and Betts had every reason to consider themselves as merely shipwrecked seamen.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipwrecked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aground; castaway; grounded; marooned; stranded; stuck; swamped; wrecked