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  • noun Plural form of shipwreck.

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Examples

  • The downside to all the interest in shipwrecks is the threat it can pose to preservation.

    Navy goes on the hunt for famous shipwreck Annys Shin 2010

  • The downside to all the interest in shipwrecks is the threat it can pose to preservation.

    Navy goes on the hunt for famous shipwreck Annys Shin 2010

  • The downside to all the interest in shipwrecks is the threat it can pose to preservation.

    Navy goes on the hunt for famous shipwreck Annys Shin 2010

  • The downside to all the interest in shipwrecks is the threat it can pose to preservation.

    Navy goes on the hunt for famous shipwreck Annys Shin 2010

  • All these ways of making a living, since they depend mainly on our personal powers, are what you call arts, and do not go down in shipwrecks but swim away with our naked selves.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The crossing was stormy and many died in shipwrecks, but eventually fourteen Norse ships reached the rugged coast of Greenland.

    The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh: Questions 2006

  • Historical and cultural resources such as shipwrecks have also been documented on shallow reefs by Monument and National Marine Sanctuary Pacific Region archaeologists.

    Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve 2008

  • The NWHI also possess a rich maritime history and special non-renewable resources — for example, submerged maritime heritage resources, such as shipwrecks, sunken aircraft, and other archaeological sites.

    Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve 2008

  • He felt himself to be, as most men do, a swindler when he comprehended this preposterous fact; and, in addition, he thought of divers happenings, such as shipwrecks, holocausts and earthquakes, which might conceivably have appalled him, and understood that he would never in his life face any sense of terror as huge as was this present sweet and illimitable awe.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • He felt himself to be, as most men do, a swindler when he comprehended this preposterous fact; and, in addition, he thought of divers happenings, such as shipwrecks, holocausts and earthquakes, which might conceivably have appalled him, and understood that he would never in his life face any sense of terror as huge as was this present sweet and illimitable awe.

    The Certain Hour 1909

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