self-righting
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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That being said, this was an out-of-sorts performance from the Easter Road side that never looked like self-righting after a dreadful start.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2020
As a crewman, she experienced the light-dark-light full rollover of a self-righting 47, and came back for more.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2019
Mobile Virtual Player created mobile, remote-controlled, self-righting “virtual players” to teach players how to tackle.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 4, 2017
Kastner, Connell and two other students, Andrew Smist and Noah Glennon, began trying to concoct a mobile, self-righting tackling dummy.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2016
It is almost indestructible; it is insubmergible; it is self-righting; it is self-emptying.
From Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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