sinkable
- a word derived from sink.
Example Sentences
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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
It was no job for a shaky-kneed man and a sinkable boat.
From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
The gunboats, sinkable and fully exposed, were rapidly getting the worst of it.
From The Star of Gettysburg A Story of Southern High Tide by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
