Sentence examples for were shipwreck from inspiring English sources

The aircraft returned to the two ships and signalled that there were shipwreck survivors in the water requiring rescue.

The wrecks, as it happened, were shipwrecks.

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

Among my biggest interests then were shipwrecks, Grand Prix racing and freakish anomalies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Asking students to solve typical exam problems without calculators, notes, or instruments, "as if they were shipwrecked on an island," is both artificial and arbitrary.