Sample Sentences for
flotsam
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  • Next, he gathered dry grasses and tiny twigs from the high-water flotsam.  (source)
    flotsam = floating debris
  • In the next three rooms, the Count found flotsam and jetsam from floor to ceiling.†  (source)
  • Any vessel can collect flotsam and jetsam.†  (source)
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  • Just some of the weird flotsam on a riverbank, but we keep everything in a search like that.†  (source)
  • Trapped in its weave was a kaleidoscope of ice floe, dead fish, plastic garbage bags, car tires, grocery carts, and other assorted flotsam.†  (source)
  • The Imperium, the CHOAM Company, all the Great Houses, they are but bits of flotsam in the path of the flood.†  (source)
  • There was a thick stripe of seaweed, with crab shells and flotsam embedded, and she threaded her fingers through it.†  (source)
  • Much of this "new knowledge" is actually the flotsam of old thought, some of whose roots go back to Hellenism.†  (source)
  • A good fifty percent of it isn't real boat material at all, just a garble of ropes, cables, planks, nets, and other debris tied together on top of whatever kind of flotsam was handy.†  (source)
  • We tried to paddle against it but had no more luck than flotsam caught in a tidal wave, and then it thudded against our feet and we were rising, too, riding its back.†  (source)
  • Tree bark, he would have guessed, or sewer-grate flotsam.†  (source)
  • I kept working, gathering the flotsam with the long net.†  (source)
  • We spent a busy time after that, searching the flotsam, and rummaging about.†  (source)
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