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driftwood
/ ˈdrɪftˌwʊd /
noun
- wood floating on or washed ashore by the sea or other body of water
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Origin of driftwood1
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Example Sentences
Immediately after the hurricane, for example, rain-saturated driftwood and debris would have been useless.
“Trickle-down government” is just another piece of American political driftwood to wash ashore this year.
The only training BP has provided for the public is to teach us how to safely pick up trash and driftwood from our own beaches.
They are votaries of the weed, making their pipes either out of driftwood, or of the bones of animals they have used for food.
We were mere atoms in a vast wave of horn and bone and flesh that bore us onward as the tide floats driftwood.
He felt as Columbus felt when he saw the land bird alighting upon his ship and the driftwood floating by.
Walking, half awake, Ida floundered among the boulders and through a horrible maze of whitened driftwood cast up by the stream.
A huge pile of driftwood was brought up from the shore and heaped on the fire by the ledge.
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