noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flotsam and jetsam
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He would walk along the beach collecting the flotsam and jetsam that had been washed ashore.
flotsam and jetsam
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works of art made from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life
flotsam and jetsam
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Camps were set up to shelter the flotsam and jetsam of the war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there was no suspicious heap lying grounded in the shallows, no flotsam or jetsam at all.
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Carey bobbed like jetsam , always awkward even though Ellwood was swimming with the tide.
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Elisabeth Valley is presenting a first solo exhibition by Sébastien De Ganay, whose paintings incorporate jetsam of various kinds.
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Flotsam and jetsam of the universe.
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It regarded them as mere jetsam , to be banished from the world like delinquents or the incorrigibly idle.
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She liked to wonder how a particular piece of jetsam had got there.
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Their wives, hand in hand, stepping carefully in expensive shoes over the summer's jetsam , brought up the rear.
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There was, as Archie had promised, plenty of good kindling among the piled jetsam on the beach.