sea wrack
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sea wrack
First recorded in 1540–50
Example Sentences
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May's writing, in this first of a trilogy, is pitch-perfect — so vivid that you can practically hear the gulls' screeches and smell the sea wrack on the shore.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2012
He paints twisted roots, withered brambles and bits of sea wrack in a way that makes them look like people in torment.
From Time Magazine Archive
The miracle of a transatlantic telephone conversation, across the mighty Andes, across the pampas and the sea wrack to one's own apartment in the Champ-de-Mars.
From Time Magazine Archive
The beach was a stony spit clogged with low-tide sea wrack, but it was beautiful to me, more beautiful than any champagne-white tourist beach back home.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
The constant recurrence of breakers, trunks of trees in large quantities, fruits and sea wrack, and the smoothness of the sea, all indicated the neighbourhood of extensive land to the south-east.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon
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