Exempel på flotsam

• The people we represent are always at the mercy of accidental happenings; they are the flotsam and jetsam of life.

• They are obsessed by what one might call the superficialities, or the flotsam and jetsam, of politics.

• Is it not the case that in every branch of agriculture there is a certain amount of flotsam and jetsam to be found?

• They become community flotsam and eke out a miserable existence, roaming the streets.

• Under the present system it may be-the lot of any employed person shortly to be thrown up with the flotsam and jetsam of humanity.

• If people are in any doubt that they might have been in contact with any of the flotsam or seaweed, their local doctor would be the first person to contact.

• The man not only lost his self-respect, he felt that he was no more than flotsam and jetsam, and a bally nuisance to the missus as well.

• One can have recovery and the recession disappearing and our unskilled people can be left like flotsam on the seashore unless we do something about it.

• I simply do not see how the community can any longer evade the responsibility of providing for this flotsam on the ocean of our so-called civilisation.

• They wash around like flotsam and jetsam.

• Eighty people were in the lifeboat the rest clung to flotsam or floated in the sea.

• The house museum exhibits archival materials including an 18-minute long movie, war photographs, military equipment, flags, military uniforms, flotsam and jetsam.

• His home is built from flotsam and sunken debris.

• Young fishes are also often found in or near shipwrecks, beams or supports, jetties, flotsam and sea buoys.

• Before anyone realized that they were firing upon an innocuous piece of flotsam, a tragic accident occurred.