Sentence examples for like a shipwreck from inspiring English sources

Construction stopped, leaving a completed tower and half of another beached like a shipwreck.

I didn't sleep that night, but reflected, feeling like a shipwreck on the ocean floor.

"It was almost like a shipwreck graveyard, it had these enormous icebergs stuck in time.

Yet the club of Mortensen, Stanley Matthews and Jimmy Armfield feels like a shipwreck with floodlights, and it could get a lot worse before it gets any better.

By the time Coach Jeff Van Gundy spared his wobbly body with 1 minute 42 seconds remaining, he looked like a shipwreck victim.

To Duthuit on Sept. 10, 1951: "I think continually of his last paintings, miracles of frenzied impotence, streaming with beauties and splendors like a shipwreck of phosphorescences,... with great wide ways along which every­thing rushes away and comes back again, and the crushed calm of the true deep" ("et le calme écrasé des très grands fonds").

A half century ago, a French education minister described undergraduate life in France as "like organising a shipwreck to find out who can swim".

And most of life can be found here: love, grief, happy and imploding families, regrets, dreams and unloved jobs that are nevertheless clung to like the debris of a shipwreck.Just before midnight, head up to that bridge across the motorway and between those two identikit little worlds.

Back at the woman's house, she's so cold that she moves with a regal slowness, like a shipwrecked queen trudging toward shore.

Three more patients were similarly afloat, held by others and bobbing like flotsam from a shipwreck.

There is one more stylish effect that I loved: Mr. Jones sometimes has cast members make their entrances as if blown onto the stage by sea winds, like pieces of a shipwreck after a storm.