Sentence examples for we were shipwrecked from inspiring English sources

To add a theatrical flourish to the already dramatic weather, we were shipwrecked, or perhaps  Cip-wrecked.

If we were shipwrecked on an island, we might not immediately be kidnapped, tied up and suspended from the ceiling of a creepy cave.

"Typically these savages live like beasts in the mountains, some of which are very rugged in that part of Ireland where we were shipwrecked.

"It almost looked like they were shipwrecked," Mr. Dress said.

Without Matfield at the helm South Africa were shipwrecked by the white tidal wave.

Another group, the Angolares, descended from runaway Angolan slaves who were shipwrecked on São Tomé about 1540.

They knew that if ever they were shipwrecked on foreign shores, then they were barred from returning to Japan.

In 1596, twenty-six pasailings sailing from the Philippines to Mexico were shipwrecked off the coast of Japan.

Last month more than 900 Iraqi Kurds were shipwrecked on the French Riviera, fuelling demands for tighter controls.

For hundreds of years sailors and fishermen were shipwrecked in the rough surf here.

Native to the Caribbean, sand fleas infected crewmen sailing with Columbus on the Santa Maria after they were shipwrecked on Haiti.