jetsam

How To Use jetsam In A Sentence

• These intagli would be interesting relics for collectors of such flotsam and jetsam of a ruined dynasty. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
• Scrambling to her feet, she zigzagged away across the wasteland, through the grimy cans an(l hubcaps and other roadside jetsam. COMPULSION
• He would walk along the beach collecting the flotsam and jetsam that had been washed ashore.
• I tell him I don't know what either flotsam or jetsam mean beyond their colloquial connotations.
• The women were blonde because they were hairdressers, not jet-set jetsam.
• But like lefties everywhere, clinging to whatever jetsam keeps us afloat, I believe every revolution ere now was betrayed.
• Flotsam and jetsam drifted from the yacht, some having already washed ashore.
• While there are trained artists--perhaps inspired by Gaudí's early 20th-century mosaics or Marcel Duchamp's readymades--who sculpt and construct large-scale artworks made from repurposed cast offs, many more are dreamers with ordinary day jobs who abhor waste, have a penchant for collecting, and seize upon an unstoppable urge to create something beautiful from the flotsam and jetsam modern life. Trash Art: California's Artistic Recycling Revolution
• The roil and swell of popular feeling flings all sort of flotsam and jetsam into our public debate. Times, Sunday Times
• The crowd in the echoing hall of the airport ebbs and flows like flotsam and jetsam in a dirty river. Christianity Today