Sentence examples for a sinking vessel from inspiring English sources

Eight sailors had to abandon a sinking vessel and three others were airlifted to a hospital with injuries.

Surrounded by boxes of papers being shipped off to the National Archives, Mr. Clinton's aides sent e-mail messages that had the sound of the last transmissions from a sinking vessel.

But with the violins producing spiky sound and phrasing with seemingly willful unmusicality -- especially in the crude even values they used to assault the second movement -- the performance was always a sinking vessel.

Nearly 800 desperate migrants from Burma and Bangladesh were rescued from a sinking vessel by fishermen off Indonesia's coast on Friday as the boat people crisis in south-east Asia continued to escalate.

Divided into two teams (the Rebels and the Motley Crew), they competed in rigorous exercises not unlike those real astronauts go through: learning how to escape a sinking vessel, navigating a microgravity wall that simulates the atmosphere in a space station, and building a satellite in an underwater environment that produces the sensation of weightlessness.

Gaza is a sinking vessel.

Walsh is captain of a rapidly sinking vessel, and many of the openings in the hull are because of his doing.

"Plaintiffs found themselves in a listing, capsizing, sinking vessel without communication, direction or help from the captain and misdirection from the crew from approximately 9 45 p.m. to approximately 11 p.m. and were left to fend for themselves," the lawsuit said.

In this version the clan's founder, sometimes identified as son of one of the Lords of the Isles, cuts off his thumb in order to plug a leak in his sinking vessel.

Andrew Simpson sensitively portrays him as a lost soul, suffering the guilt of the survivor when he escapes from the sinking vessel on a lifeboat intended for women and children.

The Sri Lankan navy said it was alerted to the sinking vessel by a fisherman.