Sentence examples for slow shipwreck from inspiring English sources

The "slow shipwreck" of Islam on the Iberian Peninsula (Braudel 1976, 781) is potentially one with an intriguing archaeological signature but there is still a considerable way to go before the full contribution of stable isotope techniques is fully realised.

And the chances are that it will not be the weakest but the strongest -- that is, those who have the most to lose from a slow, choreographed shipwreck -- who will be the first to jump.

Hopkins's life can be seen, in other words, as a slow-motion shipwreck, in which he was lost as surely as the nuns off the Kentish coast.

Martel's book tells the story of an Indian boy who survives many months at sea after a shipwreck, accompanied by a slew of animals.

This aggressive but slow-moving fish dominates feeding frenzies, and is a danger to shipwreck or air crash survivors.

A shipwreck.

"The shipwreck?" I ask.

"Shipwreck" was over.

A sunken shipwreck.

It wasn't a shipwreck.

Fire, shipwreck, the turned earth of graveyards.