jetsam
IPA: dʒˈɛtsʌm
noun
- Articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress.
- (by extension) Discarded odds and ends.
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Examples of "jetsam" in Sentences
- Also, I moved it to flotsam and jetsam.
- They had rights to wrecks and flotsam and jetsam.
- The baby robots are called Wheems, Jetsam and Flotsam.
- The rest of all of this is essentially flotsam and jetsam.
- Marine debris is also called litter or flotsam and jetsam.
- Flotsam and Jetsam grab Ariel and take her back to the sea.
- Flotsam and Jetsam are moray eel minions of the sea witch Ursula.
- Thanks for your efforts to keepWikipedia free of flotsam and jetsam.
- The priory had of land with rights to wrecks and flotsam and jetsam.
- Flotsam and Jetsam's new record The Cold will be released sometime in 2010.
- The noun is also the source of the word "jetsam" ( "jettisoned goods"), which is often paired with
- My nationwide cohort of subs included the flotsam and jetsam of the economic downturn -- unemployed realtors, bankers, nurses.
- And I’d argue that his ability to nose out a story and piece it together from all the flotsam and jetsam is just what we’ve been missing in national journalism.
- 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.
- While there are trained artists--perhaps inspired by GaudÃ'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.