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Examples of flotsam
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Boats may need extra cleaning because of the ash and grimy flotsam in the lakes.
From the signonsandiego.com
Among all that human flotsam, something approaching a shared identity was forged.
From the washingtonpost.com
Tsunami flotsam has already touched the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii this year.
From the stltoday.com
On the way back a piece of flotsam breaks off and heads towards their small boat.
From the guardian.co.uk
All the flotsam writer-director Allan Moyle picks up in there rings crazily true.
From the time.com
Each bit of flotsam, every piece of jetsam, conjures a face, a voice, a touch.
From the washingtonpost.com
Malcolm Bradbury's Stepping Westward is the latest fictional flotsam on this tide.
From the time.com
He comes down from the bridge whenever he spots a dead bird in the greasy flotsam.
From the sfgate.com
Major towns are being gassed with a grid of milky white flotsam 6 days a week.
From the newscientist.com
- The floating wreckage of a ship
- In maritime law, flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict describe specific kinds of wreck. Historically the words had specific nautical meanings, with legal consequences.
- Flotsam is a children's picture book written and illustrated by David Wiesner. Published by Clarion/Houghton Mifflin in 2006, it was the 2007 winner of the Caldecott Medal.American Library Association: URL accessed 27 January 2007, Flotsam is the recipient of David Wiesner's 3rd Caldecott Medal. ...
- Neopets (originally NeoPets) is a virtual pet website launched by Adam Powell and Donna Williams on 15 November 1999. Two years after the web site was launched, Adam Powell and Donna Williams sold a majority share to a consortium of investors led by Doug Dohring. ...
- Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck
- Debris floating on the water surface.
- Flotsam is a term for floating remnants of a shipwreck.
- Any "stuff" floating - trees, driftwood, wreckage, etc.
- Material found floating within a water body.
