SHIPWRECK in a Sentence

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To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHIPWRECK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shipwreck
 n.  destruction of a ship, as by storm or collision; complete failure or ruin
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when the penal laws decree a shipwreck.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
2  As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to prepare the shipwreck.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
3  To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
4  The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, which finally attracted the attention of the swans.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
5  These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, and we have just explained why.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
6  It is shipwreck elsewhere than in the water.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
7  On the funeral pile, in shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
8  Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68
9  We let the ships run before the gale, but the force of the wind tore our sails to tatters, so we took them down for fear of shipwreck, and rowed our hardest towards the land.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IX
10  She thought of Tara and remembered Jonas Wilkerson, venomous as a rattler, at the foot of the front steps, and she grasped at the last straw floating above the shipwreck of her life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  You couldn't imagine a more deadly place for a shipwreck.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
12  Look at me now--I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a bit of wreckage.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
13  You said you were like a shipwrecked man clinging to some wreckage.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
14  Well, I am like a shipwrecked woman clinging to some wreckage--no one to mourn for, no one to care for.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
15  He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
Example Sentence:
1  No, the one that licked me was a lifeboat after a shipwreck, that is.
2  The Norwegian group looking to salvage the Maud is filming the shipwreck's final winter in Nunavut.
3  Imagine you've been shipwrecked.