unsinkable
IPA: ʌnsˈɪŋkʌbʌɫ
noun
- A ship that was designed to be unsinkable.
adjective
- (chiefly of ships) That cannot be sunk.
- (figurative) That cannot be overcome or defeated.
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Examples of "unsinkable" in Sentences
- Manby also built an unsinkable ship.
- Turkey was an unsinkable aircraft carrier.
- Optis are as unsinkable as any boat can possibly be.
- I was intrigued about the unsinkable yacht claim though.
- The boat is virtually unsinkable with foam buoyancy built in.
- Roo buys the unsinkable in a action without Grandfathers permission.
- Roo buys the unsinkable in an action without Grandfathers permission.
- That is the source of the remark that the design is meant to be unsinkable.
- Without such conversation our "unsinkable" ship may not sustain the blows of the icebergs in its path.
- The Titanic was not called "unsinkable" - without qualificatio - until AFTER she sank, when the VP stated "I thought her unsinkable..."
- Now a new culprit is being named: a fundamental design error that some experts say may have doomed the "unsinkable" ship before it ever left port.
- As a result of a wave of bad home mortgage loans threatens to capsize our whole financial industry, including a number of "unsinkable" giants like AIG.
- Today, the old Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, in which the Titanic was built, is home to a new project commemorating the so-called unsinkable ship.
- The Titanic, which was dubbed unsinkable before it hit an iceberg and foundered in the north Atlantic in April 1912, is at the centre of plans to rejuvenate a large part of the city's docklands.
- While the Titanic was proclaimed "unsinkable" in its press releases prior to its maiden voyage, Penn proudly proclaimed Clinton's nomination "inevitable" in his now notorious memo of last summer.
- He had been hauled aboard the HMS Carpathia after hours spent floating on debris in the North Atlantic after the giant "unsinkable" sank beneath the surface, dragging with it so many innocent lives.
- It is now almost a century since that cold night of April 14, 1912, when the "unsinkable" British luxury liner Titanic sank into the cold Atlantic, killing more than 1,500 people and mocking the hubris of advanced industrial technology.
- Throngs of the doomed are drowning in the steerage compartments below-those indigent, third-class, "racially impure" masses of humanity that the "first-class", who helped design the "unsinkable" vessel, kept locked away below the decks of obscene privilege and conspicuous consumption.
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