How to Use shipwreck in a Sentence

shipwreck

1 of 2 noun
  • Divers searched the sunken shipwreck.
  • Only a few sailors survived the shipwreck.
  • The crew narrowly avoided shipwreck.
  • Hike windswept cliffs where shipwrecks whisper.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Keep an eye out for bald eagles above and shipwrecks below.
    — Charles Usher, Midwest Living, 26 May 2026
  • These letters were indeed about a shipwreck.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The team had not expected to find the legendary shipwreck right away.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Pauley explains that the idea of creating a shipwreck was fun.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 May 2026
  • Sand tiger sharks grow to 12 feet and are often found around shipwrecks, experts say.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2026
  • With a subtle sheen and light brown tone, the dress’ color comes from the Hahtiperä shipwreck.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
  • The shipwreck is full of treasures that date back to the Ptolemaic era.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 July 2022
  • This is a top-down shipwreck that touches every part of a losing franchise.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Researchers have found remains of the sailors, as well as artifacts from the shipwrecks.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • Here's a closer look at some of the Great Lakes' major shipwrecks.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Where is the shipwreck located?
    — Maia Pandey, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • For most people, though, museums offer a way to learn about the shipwreck—and even feel how cold the ocean was.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Some of the 22 lead artillery shots found on the shipwreck appeared flattened on one or two sides.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Rather than being washed ashore, the shipwreck emerged from beneath the beach due to shifting sand levels over time.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Kenza, an orphaned child and the only survivor of a shipwreck is lost and in need of a mother.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 12 June 2026
  • Next week, the mystery of the ocean floor, a mammoth mapping project, submersibles, shipwrecks, and more.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Anglers can cast for dozens of fish species that inhabit the lake, while divers have scores of historic shipwrecks to explore.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
  • On the shipwreck the hatches are fastened properly.
    — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The previous record was set in 2023 with 13 shipwrecks found.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Driftwood tent shelters appear marooned like shipwrecks, and the beach is scattered with the bones of the giant whales.
    — Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Perhaps the most thrilling part of diving in Nevis, however, is the many shipwrecks which all have a story.
    — Adrienne Jordan, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Some wreck hunters and media outlets call this the golden age for shipwreck discoveries.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The shipwrecks are also a gathering place for sand tiger sharks; a six-to-ten-foot shark species known for their calm, slow-moving nature.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026
  • One of the largest shipwrecks in recent history, and the miracle is that although there was loss, there could have been so much more.
    — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • The shipwreck is remarkably intact, sitting upright on the lakebed.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Weighed down by sandbags and pipes, the Titan began its two-and-a-half-hour descent to the storied shipwreck.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024

shipwreck

2 of 2 verb
  • What if they were shipwrecked on an island and popped out Baby Tarzan?
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 1 May 2017
  • Parents are tired and impatient; their dreams were shipwrecked.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • In this film, the pups get shipwrecked on a mysterious dinosaur island.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Eva and her crew must decide whether to rescue the shipwrecked or survive the winter with their last remaining food.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
  • They had been shipwrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The trailer shows Odysseus get shipwrecked along with his army and make his way back home during a treacherous journey.
    — Abigail Lee, Variety, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The nets were like an islet that shipwrecked sailors swam to, and then, depending on their luck, were either rescued or figured out how to survive.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In season one, she was captured by drüskelle, Fjerdan soliders, and then shipwrecked with Matthias, one of the drüskelle.
    — Town & Country, 18 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, there was no one at all when my sister and I, together with others, were shipwrecked in Lesbos.
    — Roberto Brunelli, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • Get shipwrecked on a Robinson Crusoe beach with a picnic of yellowfin ceviche?
    — Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In the beginning of the play, Miranda is charmed by the human beings shipwrecked on her island.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 26 June 2018
  • The trailer shows Odysseus getting shipwrecked and leading his army against otherworldly foes.
    — Oliver Gettell, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Jamie and Claire saved him—only to then shipwreck in Colonial Georgia, which is where season four will pick up.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 May 2018
  • Two married sea-explorers are stranded, Gilligan-style, after a storm shipwrecks their craft.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Ferdinand, a young Neapolitan prince, is shipwrecked on a remote island and believes his father perished at sea.
    — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 26 June 2023
  • This reimagining of the classic tale of the white European male shipwrecked on a desert island is brave, funny, wild and spellbinding.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Beeker takes an expansive approach to shipwreck preservation.
    — Michael Bawaya, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2015
  • One by one, hundreds of boats shipwrecked by Hurricane Irma are being salvaged from the bottom of lakes and waterways across the state.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • In recent weeks, Italy and Malta have denied access to their ports to three ships that had rescued hundreds of migrants shipwrecked off the Libyan coast.
    — Valentina Pop, WSJ, 27 June 2018
  • Over Your Dead Body follows a married couple whose relationship is beyond shipwrecked.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The four tried to sail across the sea but were shipwrecked in Spain, where all four of them survived and went on to their next adventure in Not Mexico together.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In the play, Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian, are shipwrecked and separated.
    — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The controversial coming-of-age drama was released in 1980 and saw the pair play cousins who become lovers and have a child after they're shipwrecked on an island.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • That fresh story finds Daryl and Carol shipwrecked in Spain after setting out from England on a boat and fighting a losing battle against a storm.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Prominent historians and shipwreck experts in Michigan doubt the Liberts' claim.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
  • Democrats insisted the survivors were helpless and should have been rescued to comply with international laws that call for either sides in a conflict to help combatants who fall overboard or are shipwrecked.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Democrats insisted the survivors were helpless and should have been rescued to comply with international laws that call for either sides in a conflict to help combatants who fall overboard or are shipwrecked.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The goddess spirited her away to be a priestess in the land of the Taurians, where the local cult of Artemis sacrifices any Greeks unlucky enough to get shipwrecked.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In 1543 several Portuguese were shipwrecked on the island of Tanega, off southern Kyushu.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Others have popped up in geothermal pipes, and some have been found in archaeological digs, such as several from a Hellenistic period shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2017

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