(1) The floating wreckage of a ship.
(2) Floating debris.
(1) It has the habit of swimming in small shoals around patches of flotsam , or floating logs, and is attracted by rafts or drifting boats.
(2) On the beach, icebergs are washed up like flotsam .
(3) Now the region was strewn with floating wreckage, the sort of flotsam that cried out to any Sentient that battle had raged across the Void a scant time previous.
(4) Outside, a man is pushing a battered shopping cart filled with flotsam from the road: crumpled cans, a discarded flask, a pillow.
(5) Insects and worms hitchhike the ocean on bits of flotsam , coming ashore wherever the winds and currents take them.
(6) I never thought I would care about the difference between creek and brook, sea-marks and flotsam , guzzles and gutters.
(7) They particularly like buoys, pilings, wrecks, anchored boats, flotsam , etc., and will sometimes congregate around these objects.
(8) According to these proposals, u2018genuineu2019 asylum seekers, it seems, are simply flotsam washed up by the tidal wave of persecution.
(9) Memories were surfacing in his mind, like flotsam from a shipwreck, drawn upwards from the deep.
(10) The hideous roses were flotsam and she was cast away on a tide of detritus.
(11) I'm back to work tomorrow, at my clinic dealing with whatever post-long-weekend flotsam washes up in my walk-in box.
(12) The federation is a worthless body of flotsam - we should invite the university to take over: it can't possibly do any worse.
(13) The first day was clear of contacts, but we saw a lot of flotsam , tree trunks, containers washed off ships, etc.
(14) Yet even on the edge of the Atlantic, in a city long dominated by Irish and Italians, I feel like a civilised anachronism, a sophisticated piece of flotsam on the tide of history.
(15) It's finding a shell or bit of interesting flotsam washed up during the last high tide or a few oysters that can be opened and washed down with a glass of wine back home.
(16) The room was cleared of boxes and other flotsam
(17) Any other ship - any other dead ship - would have joined the rest of the flotsam and debris that formed the Pendulum Nebula, and been moved around by the whims of solar winds.
(18) In fact, among all the detritus, flotsam , and muck, this movie could serve as a strategically tossed life preserver.
(19) But unknown to Iphigenia, he was no ordinary fisherman, but a sea wizard, one who lived from the flotsam which washed up upon the beaches and shores of the world.
(20) But being seen in the shimmering waters, when you're but a speck of flotsam to a passing ship, was never a sure bet.
(21) Mr Boardman said: u2018I was out walking with my wife and dog when we happened across a little cove and we found the creature in the flotsam that had been washed up.u2019
(22) You can well imagine the reports from Normandy: the reporter would have his back to the sea so the camera caught the wreckage, the metal flotsam , the blasted craft and bobbing bodies.
(23) The dive-site looks a tip as well, because blocks of granite of various sizes line the shore, along with flotsam and junk.
(24) The Federal Government is considering several measures to reduce the flotilla of flotsam that's clogging seas around northern Australia, the vast bulk of it coming from countries to our North.
(25) One of the most admirable aspects of sailing and yacht racing is that, using only Nature's powers - the wind and the tide - a sailing craft leaves no flotsam and jetsom in its wake, only pristine waters.
(26) What flotsam does this send floating through the mind, just below the surface?
(27) Howard's mind clung to her voice as a drowning man clings to a piece of flotsam from a ship-wreck.
(28) Inggs has for some time been collecting detritus and flotsam from an area a short distance from Cape Town where he spends a lot of time.
(29) The tidal shoreline swamps of Piscataway Creek and the shore of Potomac River often have much large woody debris and flotsam from floods.
(30) Obviously, with every man and his dog being able to update the pages of such a site, there was always a very real risk that idiots would try to fill it with disinformation, advertising and other worthless flotsam .
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