Sentence examples for shipwreck of a from inspiring English sources

The criminal turned Hollywood fixer Ray (Liev Schreiber) is our focus as he mops up the messes of his Hollywood clients while dealing with the far more combustible conflicts in his shipwreck of a family.

His account of what had happened during the shipwreck of a Colombian naval vessel brought him renown as a journalist, but also got him into trouble with the authorities.

This usage was most likely the origin of the ponies that have made Chincoteague and Assateague Islands famous, though there are legends that the ponies' ancestors survived a shipwreck of a Spanish vessel.

If any good comes of this shipwreck of a nominating process, it may be the final demise of the politics of resentment as it has been played in the last half-century.

The shipwreck of a smuggling boat in the Mediterranean on Friday left almost 50 drowned and an unspecified number of people missing; 550 people are missing from a smuggling boat that capsized in the sea on Thursday morning, and 100 are missing from a boat that capsized on Wednesday.

They are joined by Europe's largest and most complete tin mine at Geevor, Cornwall, and the Sussex shipwreck of an 18th century warship Hazardous which have been flagged as needing urgent rescue.

—Alex Schier, Harvard University The voyage of the Beagle did not stray quite far enough South to encounter an amazing shipwreck of an animal, Antarctic icefish, which inhabit the icy (−1.9°) waters of the Southern Ocean.

The Belitung shipwreck (also called the Tang shipwreck or Batu Hitam shipwreck) is the wreck of an Arabian dhow which sailed a route from Africa to China around 830 AD.

In the white-water rapids of Upper West Side real estate, this forlorn pair is a cool, shady little eddy, a shipwreck of time — and time is marching on.

Carmen Brito, a writer and artist who'd lived at the Ghost Ship for the last 11 months, described the space in an interview with Thump as "a shipwreck of just old wood and Balinese beds and all of these statues and shrines".

"I kind of described it like if an I Spy book had a baby with the Goonies movie, and it was a shipwreck of just old wood and Balinese beds and all of these statues and shrines," she told THUMP.