After the ship was hit by the huge wave, there was much flotsam scattered for miles on the surface of the ocean. From LearnThat.org.
Frenchman — a trifle of flotsam from a mid-ocean wreck and landed to grow up among the farmer-sailormen of the coast of Maine. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference
Rourke describes its dark banks well: its trolley-littered bed, its murky depths, its surface covered in flotsam and streaks of oily pollution. From Wordnik.com. [Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke] Reference
But missed in the economic floodwaters among the flotsam was the waterlogged performance of Wal-Mart. From Wordnik.com. [The Unraveling] Reference
A Frenchman — a trifle of flotsam from a mid-ocean wreck and landed to grow up among the farmer-sailormen of the coast of Maine. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XVIII] Reference
In addition to this flotsam, which is found in large masses in every big city, the militia which I mentioned consists of many adherents of an international European republic. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference
You could throw away a bucket of that kind of flotsam every Sunday it would never be missed and you’d still never make a dent, because it just keeps coming…. From Wordnik.com. [EXTREME RADICAL AWESOME PICTURES OF KIDS ‘N THEIR, UM, STUFF » Sociological Images] Reference
The cellphone wasn't among the flotsam and jetsam. From Wordnik.com. [Cellphone Girl (Part I)] Reference
What they end up with is mental flotsam and jetsam. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
So far that has created a lot of flotsam and jetsam. From Wordnik.com. [Katherine Warman Kern: The Disappearing Creative Class] Reference
And about him bobbed storm flotsam, so that he had to pick. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
Wrecks and flotsam and fragments of vast iron constructions. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The post-communist flotsam doesn't lend itself to the same narrative flow. From Wordnik.com. [When The Party's Over] Reference
Some 270 survivors, many badly wounded, drifted in the oil slicks amidst the flotsam. From Wordnik.com. [Dead In the Water] Reference
The show examines not just urban myths but the weird flotsam that floats in all our heads. From Wordnik.com. [Dumb Stunts, Smart Show] Reference
However, mixed among the flotsam and jetsam was a brand-new hardback collegiate dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [Its Academic, Or Is It?] Reference
They are, to a large extent, flotsam and jetsam over the sea of Ireland's political troubles. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
Bits of flotsam -- a plastic pistol, bridge tallies, a golf bag -- floated in the black water. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
Over their heads, like agitated bits of flotsam, pennants fluttered and placards rose and dipped. From Wordnik.com. [Hail to the Chief] Reference
Tourists are warned not to swim in the fast-flowing river, its waterfill of flotsam a continual hazard. From Wordnik.com. [Obituary] Reference
Fish tickets this on a page torn from a pocket-size spiral notebook, drifting atop the dresser flotsam. From Wordnik.com. [the last thing] Reference
We former middle-class all-stars are now simply flotsam in the tide of this human tsunami 'jobpocalypse.'. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Palmer: The Poverty Spiral] Reference
In these rooms men from the docks -- the flotsam and jetsam of humanity -- receive their first glimpse of. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
Thirion has even discovered spiders, which he deduces were windborne, and ants, probably carried on flotsam. From Wordnik.com. [Fragile habitat of French mystery island 'risks being trampled underfoot'] Reference
Nearer and nearer it came, until at length she could recognise the form of this flotsam and jetsam of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
It looks like foam at first, flotsam from an ocean that readily and regularly empties it contents onto the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift] Reference
Among the new flotsam: "SpongeBob" thongs, with the show's underwater town of Bikini Bottom emblazoned on the front. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers] Reference
The thought, therefore, that Gwen's intellectual flotsam was beginning at length to swirl about a definite object in. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
CASEY STENGEL As inaugural manager of the flotsam New York Mets, the Old Perfessor got plenty good at getting it right. From Wordnik.com. [Amazin' Disgrace] Reference
Under the tree was a deep hole where flotsam leaves and twigs performed an endless treadmill dance in the grasp of the eddy. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
Under the orders of the armed overseers the laborers were reducing the beach to order, sorting out the flotsam into two piles. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
They had, among the flotsam in their hive, a few human bodies they had picked up from some wreck they'd come across in their travels. From Wordnik.com. [Greylorn] Reference
It looks as if all of us, ill or hale, poor or rich, are but the playthings of nature, bits of flotsam on the ocean of human passions. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
The Kuwaiti prisoners are a sampling of what one veteran U.S. intelligence officer calls the "flotsam and jetsam" of the war in Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [Guantanamo Justice?] Reference
Proponents of a particular viewpoint, especially if their reputation is based on the accuracy of that viewpoint, cling to it like a shipwrecked man to flotsam. From Wordnik.com. [On Second Thought ...] Reference
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