Sentence examples for first to sink from inspiring English sources

My country, the Maldives, is desperate to stop climate change – our islands will be the first to sink if the world keeps warming.

"Since the area was the first to sink, maybe it might be one of the first to come back," she said.

Chris Leslie, the previous shadow chancellor, was one of the first to sink his teeth in, followed by about 20 other Labour MPs, who consciously refused to support McDonnell's opposition to the "fiscal charter" requiring governments to run a budget surplus by 2019.

Of the four ships, Kronprinz was the first to sink.

The enormity of the political ramifications of this disclosure scarcely have a second to sink in – a theologian who spends holy days with the Archbishop, whose God-fearing lyrics are sung by millions in America's Bible Belt, coming out as a lesbian – before I begin to reflect on the implications for her personally.

I think it took a second to sink it, but when it did he (sort of) apologized.

[15] You could be using this float time to escape rather than opening the driver's side door and giving the water 5 to 10 seconds to sink the car and drown everyone in the backseat.[16].[16]

The first destroyer to sink a U-boat, the U.S.S.

Hunley, in full H.L. Hunley, first submarine to sink an enemy ship.

Pansy being held prisoner in cabin by Milwood, who is also plotting with first officer to sink ship.

The country, a collection of atolls and islands in the Indian Ocean, stands less than two metres above sea level, and as climate change causes seas to rise it will probably be the first nation to sink beneath the waves.