How to Use jetsam in a Sentence

jetsam

noun

• But even the films that, at the time, were written off as flotsam and jetsam . .
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 20 Apr. 2018
• Waves and wind send flotsam and jetsam across vast stretches of ocean.
  — Carl Hoffman, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2018
• Smallest flotsam and jetsam can be used as the base for your newest compost pile.
  — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That was followed by the Facebook stream, with its journalistic jetsam and fake flotsam....
  — Robert Thomson, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2017
• What makes her achievements even more remarkable is that Ms. Byrd could all too easily have ended up as a piece of inner-city jetsam.
  — WSJ, 15 Jan. 2022
• Their materials: The tiniest flotsam and jetsam of nature, and glue.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2014
• Maine has its share of hoarders, and one of the joys of traveling the state is to browse the flotsam and jetsam of human enterprise without feeling the pull to bring (almost) any of it into your own home.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
• Coming up with a grand unifying theory on what separates the great Stephen King adaptations from the flotsam and jetsam that have washed onto shore the past three-plus decades isn't easy.
  — Scott Tobias, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• An environmental envoi, perhaps, with Buzz washed up on a beach alongside other jetsam, or clogging the gullet of a whale?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
• Alexander Dodge’s set, a jaunty playground of flotsam and jetsam, is strewn with cinema seats in a production that revels in the open theatricality of the play.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 26 June 2018
• Shipping is also relatively infrequent there and, the authors write, there is no reason to think that flotsam or jetsam in the Arctic would be so much higher than in other parts of the world.
  — Tatiana Schlossberg, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017
• From those pensive jigsaw puzzles, Scarbath shapes works of different textures from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life: a shard of colored glass or a pebble that just caught her eye.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2022
• Flood waters also contain chemicals and will leave behind bathtub-like rings of mud in homes and all manner of flotsam and jetsam on streets and lawns as the Ohio River withdraws back into its banks.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 27 Feb. 2018
• After sifting through mountains of Xbox flotsam and jetsam, Van Cleave talked the recyclers into letting him take home five motherboards.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
• The pragmatic, craftsmanlike approach Pagnol used to transform the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life into wondrous stories was one of the keys to his artistic achievement.
  — Kristin M. Jones, WSJ, 7 July 2017
• Its receding waters are leaving behind the usual flotsam and jetsam of a lake heavily trafficked by weekend boaters — and even exposing a ship dating back to World War II.
  — CBS News, 5 July 2022
• Perfumers rely on jetsam ambergris that washes ashore; these little fatty blobs are worth thousands of dollars.
  — Kate Sullivan, refinery29.com, 20 Mar. 2020
• The architectural jetsam of millennia mixes here; ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque share space along narrow, curving lanes.
  — Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022
• But as such, antique stores and auction houses are also where the flotsam and jetsam of the worst aspects of material culture wash up — and continue to proliferate, even appreciating in value.
  — Sophie Haigney, Curbed, 11 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024