And I’d argue that his ability to nose out a story and piece it together from all the flotsam and jetsam is just what we’ve been missing in national journalism. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Who Is Murray Waas?] Reference
The noun is also the source of the word "jetsam" ( "jettisoned goods"), which is often paired with. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] 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
There's just flotsam and jetsam from everywhere here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference
Rose saw a pile of driftwood, flotsam, jetsam, and seeweed. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
Just the usual flotsam and jetsam litters the craggy coastline. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2005] Reference
But, as I walk through here, the mud that is caked and the flotsam and jetsam. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference
Inevitably it will only attract the flotsam and jetsam from other professions. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Flotsam and jetsam of shucks drifting down, and forming in mass at the eddies. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
That's an impressive pile of jetsam and flotsam standing between Hillary and the exits. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Had More Than 50,000 Online Donors] Reference
By this method the mean flow velocity vm is determined with floats or flotsam and jetsam. From Wordnik.com. [1. Hydrological bases] 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
We're the bits of flotsam and jetsam that waft through the cabin of a capsule drifting in space. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Handler: Allow Me To Introduce My Spleen] Reference
The result turns Nygma into a super-powered brain spewing the flotsam and jetsam of pop culture. From Wordnik.com. [Erik Lundegaard: Batman Forever (1995): I'm OK, Batman's OK] Reference
He's drowning - he's grabbing onto any piece of flotsam and jetsam he can to try to save himself. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign's Muddled, Self-Contradictory Message On Ayers] Reference
Another example of cynical politics to assuage the conscience of the dinner-party flotsam and jetsam. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] 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
I've seen the dismissive jetsam and flotsam online, the Vogue shots, the references to "the beauty queen". From Wordnik.com. [Linda Hansen: McSame's McVeep: A Token of His Esteem...] 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
Once the home of a brave people ...... now home to whatever flotsam and jetsam will march in a 'rent a crowd'. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I am the examining magistrate of all the jetsam from the sea that is washed from anywhere whatever upon our shores. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
COOPER (voice-over): You find yourself getting used to the desolation, the flotsam and jetsam of life before the wave. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2005] Reference
Third, it's not neighborly to hog a parking spot and throw a bunch of your personal flotsam and jetsam onto the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Parking Ticket Geek: Hey Moron! Get That Crap Off My Street!] Reference
You know, I mean, the splintering and just the havoc and the sort of flotsam/jetsam of what the damage that happens here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2008] Reference
For 37 years he bartered, bid and bundled up flotsam and jetsam from the space race he helped win as an engineer for NASA. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Space Program Memorabilia to be Auctioned Today - March 18, 2000] Reference
Already men were labouring to clear a way through the jetsam of battle; and now out from the Gate came some bearing litters. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
If you're not getting my drift just yet, sift through the jetsam of the birth of the 21st Century America for just a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Conniff: Con Games: Cry, Beloved Neocons] Reference
Between low water and the flotsam and jetsam of the high-tide mark, land and sea wage a never-ending conflict for possession. From Wordnik.com. [Undersea (historical)] Reference
The tide was out, leaving an expanse of oily pebbled beach scattered with the debris of storms and flotsam and jetsam from boats. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Gossip]
Real use of language means ridding yourself of all the flotsam and jetsam in your vocabulary when you are communicating seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Laermer: That "Thing" You Don't] Reference
Holding the memories in her heart but not clinging to them like a drowning sailor grasping at flotsam and jetsam in a turbulent sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
My first priority is to get him to safety aboard my flotilla fashioned from flotsam and jetsam and the silky hairs of my own moustache. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2005] Reference
At 10.30 on the morning of the 18th the Brigade moved northwards along a road strewed with the jetsam of a retreating army, until Ramleh was reached. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
For our reason plays at the edge of the universe as a little child plays at the edge of the sea, gathering from its fringes the flotsam and jetsam of its mighty life. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
The place was a confused medley of the flotsam and jetsam of dwelling houses, and appeared to him much more like a pawnbroker's than the business place of an art dealer. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
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