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How to use flotsam in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Flotsam means debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck. Example: “The flotsam and jetsam of society were at the night club.”

Examples of flotsam by meaning

nounDebris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.

  • STORAGE boxes -- catchalls for flotsam, jetsam, whatnots and thingamajigs -- are gaining new interest as decorative objects for the home.1991 May 30, Emily Gwathmey, “Storage Box: Catchall's New Life as Eye-Catcher”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Dec...
  • That gaggle of human flotsam doesn't even belong on the sea.”2021 October 7, Shana Gohd, “The Siren” (0:17 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 7, spoken by Laszlo...

More sentences with flotsam

  • The flotsam and jetsam of society were at the night club.From the entry flotsam and jetsam
  • The remaining flotsam was washed ashore.From the entry wash
  • Storage boxes—catchalls for flotsam, jetsam, whatnots and thingamajigs—are gaining new interest as decorative objects for the home.1991 May 30, Emily Gwathmey, “Storage Box: Catchall's New Life as Eye-Catcher”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14…. From the entry whatnot
  • "Chinese Wall" is one such piece of legal flotsam which should be emphatically abandoned.1980. The Chinese Wall Defense to Law Firm Disqualification 128 U.Pa.L.Rev. 677. From the entry Chinese Wall
  • That broken comb exemplifies the apparently inexhaustible strength of the novel's flotsam, its disjunctive detail which makes nevertheless for tonal coherence.1985, John Jones, Dostoevsky, Oxford University Press, USA. From the entry disjunctive
  • Flotsam is “floatsome,” cargo or wreckage found floating on the surface of the ocean or goods seen to float up from the hull of a wrecked ship.2010, Bill Casselman, Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik. From the entry floatsome
  • And, after all that, what remains, nearly a century later, is a small number of pretty pieces left in vast acres of flotsam: what atticfuls of stale old dust!1965, The Illustrated Weekly of India, volume 86, page 93. From the entry atticful
  • Near waterfront, a stone's throw from the slums It lifts, above its wreckage, three gold buoys Yet to its reefage tattoo'd flotsam comes Dropping their snared bags of exotic toys.1990, A. M. Klein, Zailig Pollock, Complete Poems - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 575. From the entry reefage

Meaning of flotsam

  1. noun Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.

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Questions about flotsam in a sentence

How do you use flotsam in a sentence?
Flotsam is used as a noun. For example: “The flotsam and jetsam of society were at the night club.”
What is a short sentence with flotsam?
“The remaining flotsam was washed ashore.”
What does flotsam mean?
Flotsam means debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.

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