Usage examples (35)

• After the ship was hit by the huge wave, there was much flotsam scattered for miles on the surface of the ocean.
• Frenchman — a trifle of flotsam from a mid-ocean wreck and landed to grow up among the farmer-sailormen of the coast of Maine.
• Rourke describes its dark banks well: its trolley-littered bed, its murky depths, its surface covered in flotsam and streaks of oily pollution.
• But missed in the economic floodwaters among the flotsam was the waterlogged performance of Wal-Mart.