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At a naval symposium in 2010, then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called into question making such big investments in a few increasingly sinkable ships.

From Reuters • Mar. 9, 2017

Price: $7,000, about $1,000 more than sinkable boats of similar design.

From Time Magazine Archive

I watch through the window as he uses bright yellow paint to draw a large letter G on the back of our hopefully unsinkable, but likely very sinkable, cardboard boat.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

But he who believes that he is sailing, perhaps without a set course, on an unstable and sinkable raft, must not be dismayed if the raft gives way beneath his feet and threatens to sink.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

A minute later the shattered canoe was floating down the river, while everything sinkable had gone to the bottom.

From Dick in the Everglades by Dimock, A. W.