Sample Sentences forflotsam (editor-reviewed)
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The recovery teams retrieve bodies along with each piece of flotsam that might provide a clue.flotsam = floating debris
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...the flotsam and jetsam that life washed up on our shores! (source)flotsam = things treated as of low value (originally floating debris -- especially wreckage of a ship)
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It was the type of flotsam and jetsam (a pair of words I had just learned from the dictionary) that washes up on your coffee table, lies around for a week or so, and then makes way for whatever comes in on the next tide. (source)flotsam = things of low value (originally floating debris -- especially wreckage of a ship)
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Next, he gathered dry grasses and tiny twigs from the high-water flotsam. (source)flotsam = floating debris
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In the next three rooms, the Count found flotsam and jetsam from floor to ceiling.† (source)
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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)
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Trapped in its weave was a kaleidoscope of ice floe, dead fish, plastic garbage bags, car tires, grocery carts, and other assorted flotsam.† (source)
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The Imperium, the CHOAM Company, all the Great Houses, they are but bits of flotsam in the path of the flood.† (source)
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There was a thick stripe of seaweed, with crab shells and flotsam embedded, and she threaded her fingers through it.† (source)
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Much of this "new knowledge" is actually the flotsam of old thought, some of whose roots go back to Hellenism.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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Tree bark, he would have guessed, or sewer-grate flotsam.† (source)
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I kept working, gathering the flotsam with the long net.† (source)
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We spent a busy time after that, searching the flotsam, and rummaging about.† (source)
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