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sinkable

  • a word derived from sink.
    sink
    verb (used without object)
    to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in orinto ).

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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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

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 Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler