Shipwrecked
['ʃiprekt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Shipwreck
Typist: Nadine
Examples
- Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in Lat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- One in 1849 came to demand the liberation of eighteen shipwrecked American sailors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Then he got shipwrecked just as he was coming from Jerusalem to take a great chair at Padua. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Woodcourt shipwrecked! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Nadine