Sentence examples for sinking off from inspiring English sources

"Everything's on the corners and sinking off, changing speeds," said Luke Scott of the Baltimore Orioles.

"They were all covered in fuel; they were slipping out of our hands," recalled Domenico Colapinto, a fisherman who was one of the first to reach the scene of the migrant vessel sinking off Lampedusa on Thursday.

LONDON — A hundred years to the minute after the Titanic slipped its moorings in Southampton, England, for its maiden voyage, a recording of the ship's whistle broke a minute's silence at the dockside on Tuesday as the city remembered the liner and the 1,500 passengers and crew members who perished in her sinking off Newfoundland on April 15 , 1912

Hundreds of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar have been rescued from a boat that was sinking off the Indonesian coast.

Another member of the audience, Father Dionysus Mintov, said the sinking off Lampedusa was a "terrible tragedy".

The plight of migrants trying to flee Africa and the Middle East for Europe has been highlighted by tragedies such as the recent ship sinking off Lampedusa.

The highest death toll came when a wooden sailboat sank off Kalolymnos.

One woman's waters broke as her boat began to sink off the coast of Darwin.

In 1985 and 1986, he participated in the salvaging of the H.M.S. Feversham, a British warship that sank off Nova Scotia in 1711.

Oct 2013: More than 360 people, mostly Eritreans and Somalis, die as their boat sinks off Lampedusa.

Meanwhile the alleged captain of a boat that sank off Libya on Sunday has appeared in court in Catania, Sicily.