Example Sentences
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Coast Guard initially reported a shipwrecked sailor may have sparked the blaze after firing flares for help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
International law requires belligerents in a war to assist sailors wounded or shipwrecked in battle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 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 stood alone, like a shipwrecked man on the shore.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
