capsizing
- present participle of capsize.
Example Sentences
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"Based on the statements of the crew ... there was no alarm or public address that took place during the emergency prior to the sinking and capsizing of the ship," he said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
Abdoul Aziz Balde sobbed as he spoke of his son Idrissa, who left Guinea in search of a better future, but has not been heard from since capsizing off the Moroccan coast.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
Before the U.S. military strikes, he said, his main concerns were capsizing, drowning and arrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
They were trying to return from popular Emerald Bay to their west side home in midafternoon when eight-foot swells swamped the boat, deadening the engine and capsizing the vessel off rocky Rubicon Point near D.L.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
Like the Deanes so many years before him, he was particularly familiar with the 1782 capsizing of the Royal George, which had gone down in the Solent with more than eight hundred souls aboard her.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
