Sentence examples for capsized ships from inspiring English sources

But you still gain a clear sense of its magnificent isolation, what it must have been like in the 50s – the forest-covered, mist-shrouded mountains still providing an incredible view: "The mountains look like the hulls of capsized ships, / slime-hung and barnacled".

The capsized ship disaster appeared to be the largest of its kind in terms of loss of life this year.

Dramatic images on South Korean TV showed the capsized ship tilted 45 degrees on its port side.

Unlike a capsized ship taking on water or a goose-struck airliner gliding to earth, trains almost always wrecked with awesome violence, loudly and fast.

On 24 April 1854 a capsized ship's boat bearing the name Bella was discovered off the Brazilian coast, together with some wreckage but no personnel, and the ship's loss with all hands was assumed.

Amid the tip, Si clung to his place, as if grasping the deck of a capsizing ship.

Mortier repeatedly reaches for metaphors: a house that is burning, a house that is collapsing, a capsizing ship, verbal rubble and grammatical ruin, a whirlpool, a coward that giggles behind the cupboard and under the floor, an ice floe breaking up, a stagnant fen, a tide going out… Each metaphor is devastating; none can capture the "de-wording, de-languaging, de-remembering".

It's offloading unprofitable divisions left and right in an attempt to right the capsizing ship and sold off its PC business just last month.

Digital waves thrown against the already capsizing ship of brick and mortar booksellers.

Around the country, the hurricane capsized several ships, primarily fishing vessels.

The remnants of Higos capsized two ships offshore Primorye, killing seven people.