shipwreck
noun
the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
shipwrecked
Example Sentences
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Newly shipwrecked on the island is Tolomeo’s usurping brother, Alessandro, who is having second thoughts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned around one-fourth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest blaze recorded on the island in modern history.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
“It looks like two classically shipwrecked people,” Smith said, calling it a “highly questionable decision that these two people on that obviously incapacitated vessel were still in any kind of fight.”
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2025
The survivors may have been subject to protections provided to shipwrecked sailors, or to those given to troops who have been rendered unable to continue fighting.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
He was caught in a storm & shipwrecked in India.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
