Sentence examples for a sinking rat from inspiring English sources

The staff quit but Newt is still running, a sinking rat abandoned by his ship.

Could we have seen the first recorded instance of a ship deserting a sinking Rat?

As the stream of Republicans fleeing the Donald Trump candidacy becomes a flood, it does seem the appropriate metaphor to use -- the ships are leaving the sinking rat this time, not the other way 'round.

Why wouldn't rats leave a sinking ship and, if rats were capable of such a thing, blame the captain?

He creeps away from the Alving house like a scuttling rat escaping a sinking ship.

Many opposition supporters described his departure as an escape rather than a defection, since he had served the regime loyally for so long – "a rat deserting a sinking ship," said one.

And, you know, I felt I didn't want to be – if you like – a rat leaving a sinking ship, before the general election, and I didn't want to see the Labour party sail off to defeat, and then whatever else.

After my outburst, a shameful sequence followed: I let go of the tiller and scampered up the side of the cockpit toward the high-side rail — "like a rat leaving a sinking ship," as our instructor would cheerfully put it — leaving my three crewmates to fend for themselves.

Better be a swimming rat than a sinking ship.

It's better to be a swimming rat than a sinking ship.

A cartoon in the Philadelphia Business Journal a short time later portrayed Galli as a rat escaping a sinking ship in a Rubbermaid tub.