Explore Jetsam through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like part or portion. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Jetsam in a sentence
Jetsam meaning
- Items thrown overboard from a ship or boat in distress in order to lighten its load.
- Discarded or leftover odds and ends.
Using Jetsam
- The main meaning on this page is: Items thrown overboard from a ship or boat in distress in order to lighten its load. | Discarded or leftover odds and ends.
- Useful related words include: part, portion, flotsam, wreckage.
- In the example corpus, jetsam often appears in combinations such as: and jetsam, jetsam of.
Context around Jetsam
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jetsam
- In this selection, "jetsam" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seemingly and littering stand out and add context to how "jetsam" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include case of jetsam or rules and flotsam and jetsam littering the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jetsam" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jetsam
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hang them on doors or walls to store shoes, umbrellas, dog leashes, all the flotsam and jetsam of life. (19 words)
No doubt, camping has its charm, but our campsites sometimes look ravaged with the flotsam and jetsam of camping. (19 words)
Let’s try to make room for at least a little good news among all the political flotsam and jetsam littering the internet this week. (25 words)
But here we have it – there are those squatters at Success, on the East Coast of Demerara, who insist they just don’t have anywhere to go to put their heads down but those flimsy hovels they created out of flotsam and jetsam seemingly washed ashore. (46 words)
As soon as you start pushing and pulling it out of your drain, you begin encountering globs of all the flotsam and jetsam you thought you had rinsed away on a day-to-day basis. (35 words)
Let’s try to make room for at least a little good news among all the political flotsam and jetsam littering the internet this week. (25 words)
Example sentences (7)
But here we have it – there are those squatters at Success, on the East Coast of Demerara, who insist they just don’t have anywhere to go to put their heads down but those flimsy hovels they created out of flotsam and jetsam seemingly washed ashore.
Hang them on doors or walls to store shoes, umbrellas, dog leashes, all the flotsam and jetsam of life.
As soon as you start pushing and pulling it out of your drain, you begin encountering globs of all the flotsam and jetsam you thought you had rinsed away on a day-to-day basis.
Let’s try to make room for at least a little good news among all the political flotsam and jetsam littering the internet this week.
No doubt, camping has its charm, but our campsites sometimes look ravaged with the flotsam and jetsam of camping.
The Flotsam and Jetsam was described by the Editor-in-Chief as an ‘experiment’ meant to both poke fun at CNU and make people laugh.
The IG report suggests that this was really a case of jetsam, or rules intentionally tossed over the side by Comey to lighten his load.
Common combinations with jetsam
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and jetsam 6×
- jetsam of 2×