How to Use flotsam in a Sentence

flotsam

noun

• Those trees were about the only thing that stopped the flotsam that shot down the water chute.
  — azcentral, 15 May 2018
• But even the films that, at the time, were written off as flotsam and jetsam . .
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 20 Apr. 2018
• Dark, kind of grim, not all that catchy, full of flotsam, and full of transcendence.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• The idea that the smell of plastic flotsam might lure animals to their doom first emerged in 2016.
  — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
• And then it was put up for auction like a piece of celebrity flotsam.
  — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
• Most of the needles had caps on, Rau said, and no one had been injured by the flotsam as of Tuesday.
  — Madeline McGee, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2019
• This is not the first time the Chinese have threatened the planet with a falling piece of Long March flotsam.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
• Waves and wind send flotsam and jetsam across vast stretches of ocean.
  — Carl Hoffman, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2018
• So it is left to Mochida to curate the flotsam and jetsam of the coronavirus.
  — Yuri Kageyama, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
• When the Islamic State tide went out, Hadizha, 8, was found like flotsam in a Mosul street.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
• These bridges were designed with handrails that could be removed, so tree limbs and other bits of flotsam didn’t get stuck.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2017
• The men were forced to abandon the vessel and build a rudimentary cabin on land from bits of the ship and flotsam scavenged from the shore.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
• The medics were treating up to 60 casualties per day; many were civilians, the flotsam of war.
  — Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 June 2017
• The den of the model home is converted to a second bedroom, and flotsam of everyday life from the time will be in view.
  — By Roxie Hammill, kansascity.com, 30 May 2017
• Smallest flotsam and jetsam can be used as the base for your newest compost pile.
  — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Every white cap is a head sticking out of the water, every piece of flotsam is a dorsal fin.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 21 Sep. 2017
• The tire reef is different from the usual flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict.
  — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 19 Oct. 2017
• And this is nothing new for the Angels, who have thrown all sorts of flotsam and jetsam into left, only to watch it predictably fail.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• But there is none of the designer’s flotsam: papers, books, sketches.
  — Christina Binkley, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2017
• In other words, an unfettered wide-open search of the Internet on your own is going to bring up all kinds of flotsam.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• As the snow melts into muck, little clusters of flotsam and jetsam emerge in the far corners of everyone’s yards.
  — Sally Higginson, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Find a list of materials to prepare ahead of time (think egg crates, tin cans and other around-the-house flotsam) on the website or Facebook page.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
• Storms and currents in the gulf of Alaska deliver all manner of flotsam to shore—never, though, a bounty like this one.
  — John Clarke, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Mortgage rates follow the 10-year closely, which was one bright spot coming out of Monday's flotsam.
  — oregonlive.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• At the end of the passage, seawater pooled, which meant wading through a mucky pond teeming with driftwood and mystery flotsam.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• Everything was saved by default, so all the flotsam and jetsam of daily work was captured in a sort of running ledger.
  — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2021
• But as the sheetwebs spin silk to flee an inhospitable habitat, their webs are flotsam from an evacuation.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021
• The entire red flag approach will collapse under its own weight, taking down the goodness of the idea by allowing flotsam and riffraff to sink the entire ship.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• Nothing has surfaced recently, and studying the flotsam hasn’t produced much to go on.
  — Barbara S. Peterson, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2018
• Here and there, compounds cobbled together out of single-wides, tarps, pallets and other flotsam, ringed by wire fencing, hunkered in the sagebrush.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024