Sentence examples for verge of sinking from inspiring English sources

Other reports said passengers had been told to put on lifejackets and jump into the sea amid fears that the vessel was on the verge of sinking.

With the Knicks on the verge of sinking against the Chicago Bulls again in a pivotal Game 5, New York was saved by a referee's call.

When the boat was on the verge of sinking, the other officers asked my father to arrest the captain and seize control of the ship.

Like a great white shark, Bourdain tends to be photographed with his jaws wide open, on the verge of sinking his teeth into some tremulous delicacy.

The two divers, Detective Jeffrey Dowling and Detective Darren Blum, who were in the submerged part of the boat, feared that it was on the verge of sinking and started to leave.

When the boat is piled high with wet sand – high enough so that it's on the verge of sinking – it sails to shore, from where the sand is loaded on to trucks, for delivery to building sites around the city.

So, might we be on the verge of a sinking dollar and relatively virulent inflation … perhaps to be followed by Chairman Powell's silver hammer?

For example: (1) The New Start treaty - which just about every analyst, Democratic or Republican, says would make America more secure - is on the verge of being sunk by a few senators for partisan reasons.

News of sinking of Nuremburg.

Possibly the most moving of all the reminiscences by the news services is the recital of the seaman who went out in a launch with some other seamen to the stricken Oklahoma, already on the verge of capcizing and sinking, and dragged out as many men as they could.

The company was on the verge of collapse, having sunk millions into some problem-plagued films, including "Revolution," a sweeping 1985 drama about the American Revolution starring Al Pacino.