Example Sentences

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It is on a full tide and with a steady wind that vessels find the sea, while changeful blasts will shipwreck them, and then cast their wrecks upon the shore.

From The Harvest of Years by Ewell, Martha Lewis Beckwith

Only this, Peter answered, that money will shipwreck our Community sooner or later—we're never free from it.

From The Brook Kerith A Syrian story by Moore, George (George Augustus)

"How now, long Tom!" cried his officer, "these rocks and cliffs will shipwreck you on the shoals of poetry yet; you grow sentimental!"

From The Pilot by Cooper, James Fenimore