How To Use Sinking In A Sentence

An iceberg smashes its way to the surface, all sharp angles and ragged edges, rearing over the barely visible remains of a crushed and sinking ship.
Phase I called for dewatering and rehabilitating the No.6 shaft, sinking the shaft to the 45th level, cutting seven level stations, and diamond drilling the conglomerate bed.
The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
Eventually, of course, the cheetah wins, sinking its teeth into the jugular of the prey and ending its life.
He set the computer aside and put his hands behind his back, sinking into the comfortable support of the cushions and allowing the memories to take him back.

On the slowly sinking Titanic, there was time for socially determined behavioral patterns to reemerge.
Dororo's main character Kou Shibasaki (The Sinking of Japan) as the woman warrior Dororo, who was a precocious street child and self-styled "greatest thief in all of Japan".
Even as home prices continued to fall industrywide and the number of new houses under construction kept sinking, Paul Saville , the chief executive of NVR Inc., received total 2010 compensation valued at nearly $31 million, according to NVR's proxy statement. NVR Pays Top Dollar
Sinking roots is not an automatic childhood event, but is a result, at least in part, of the process of maturation.
He was increasingly enjoying the social life, sinking halves of lager. Times, Sunday Times
FLYFISHING King salmon (chinooks) require stout fly tackle — 9 - to 10-weight rods with sinking-tip lines, heavy leaders, and large, gaudy flies. How to Plan A Fishing Trip to Alaska
If we can pump all the water out, we can save the ship from sinking.
With its long claws, the zorilla digs feverishly after the prize, alternately sinking its nose into the ground until it comes up munching.
If any employee is sinking on the job, you need to respond in a businesslike way.
A storm system raging across Western Europe continued to wreak havoc in the air and sea yesterday, bringing down an Italian helicopter and sinking an Italian cargo ship loaded with chemicals.
He said he had not been afraid during the sinking because he is a strong swimmer. Times, Sunday Times
I might have known he'd be the first rat to desert this sinking ship!
That sinking feeling we'd experienced as we watched the snow fall when it was supposed to be melting dissipated.
Warrior stroke Jingtao hack flow without sinking, coward in be in smooth water will drown.
The word mudslide made Bo’s sinking head pop into Corey’s mind, and his stomach squirmed, this time with nausea. The Good House
Why are cities across the country sinking taxpayer money into sports stadiums and arenas?
What other chart stars could the sinking soap recruit?
He says that winning the championship last year is still only gradually sinking in. Times, Sunday Times
Here an exclamation of "Mercy, mercy!" called the esquire's attention, and he beheld his amiable consort sinking aghast, with uplifted hands on Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
But I did get up and play a game of pool - which I lost by sinking the cue ball on my 8-ball shot.
It may be more likely to arise following an enquiry into, for example, the identity of the aggressor in an unwitnessed fight; but it can arise even after an enquiry, aided by good experts, into, for example, the cause of the sinking of a ship.
He was swamped in it, slowly sinking in to the mire of documents and decisions he could no longer even think of how to make.
Later that day, other enlisted radiomen/gunners helped even the score, protecting their dive-bomber pilots as they wiped out the enemy carrier force, sinking all four Japanese flattops.
On the water, meanwhile, the last White Lilies are sinking beneath the surface, the last gay Pickerel-Weed is gone, though the rootless plants of the delicate Bladder-Wort, spreading over acres of shallows, still impurple the wide, smooth surface. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
At least a man can't be hanged for sinking a pedalo. posted by Glyn Davies at Archive 2007-03-01
But instead of sinking his teeth into a succulent pork, egg and pastry treat, Mr Davis found he was crunching glass.
The sea is rising, the city is sinking, and the damage to its historic buildings, bridges and artworks is becoming increasingly apparent.
Every type of boat was pressed into service to rescue passengers from the sinking ferry.
Following Blockley's death, his parents founded the Leo Blockley Memorial Campaign, which campaigns for safer rowing boats with the ability to withstand swamping or sinking.
We were sinking fast, and the captain gave the order to abandon ship.
The following year a sinking fund was established in an effort to amortize the debt.
Not a month goes by but someone else flees the sinking ship, following in the tiny footsteps of their predecessors, the shipside rodents. America is Lost--and We Lost It
The words were like poison, sinking beneath my skin and tainting me.
We came to the small medieval town of Orchha as the sun was sinking from a pink and grey sky shot with golden threads.
The sinking of bodies in water has likewise the same effect, as I remember to have heard of bottles of wine being let down into a deep well to cool, but through accident or neglect being left there for many years, and then taken out; and that the wine not only was free from sourness or flatness, but tasted much finer, owing, it would seem, to a more exquisite commixture of its parts. The New Organon
An explanation that I favour for the sinking is that the snort mast float valve jammed open, flooding the boat.
Lan shut his eyes tight, sinking his head down a little in embarrassment and shyness.
They had had to ram the boat into the bank in order to avoid being swept away - or sinking, since the planking proved far from watertight. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
The Reds and Rockies played that "nothing to lose" role, while St. Louis was the NL's big second-half team — like Oakland, a "chugger" — roaring past the sinking Cubs for a playoff berth. USATODAY.com - Mets may be in position to 'chug' into playoffs
A television programme recreating the sinking of the Second World War battleship, Royal Oak, was broadcast on Grampian TV on Friday night.
I felt a kind of qualm of faintness and downsinking about my heart and stomach, to the dispelling of which I took a thimbleful of spirits, and, tying my red comforter about my neck, I marched briskly to the session-house. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
We landed about a hundred feet from the headquarters ten, sinking into the grass up to the cargo deck.
Quite a few of them would have dreamed about sinking into the low saddle of a Harley Davidson chopper and thundering off with the feet resting up front and the hands on high handlebars.
It also accounts -- the sinking of the Edinburgh, I mean -- for the rather underhanded decision to use the San Andreas. SAN ANDREAS
For the same sorts of reason that sinking ships need lifeboats. Times, Sunday Times
Golf courses once tamed and made to look impotent are sinking their teeth into him. Times, Sunday Times
To avoid the effect of unidirectional layered compression summation method without considering side swell, the approximate calculation formula for estimating sluice(dam) foundation sinking is derived.
Even her buoyant presence fails to keep this cinematic clunker from sinking.
The body spilled from the spire, sinking into the sand below.
Randolphe muttered some indistinct response; and was again sinking to For - getfuJnesS, when Monta*iba«, with a tran - sient exertion of strength, rudely shook, him, and sternly bade him rise. The confessional of Valombre
I slow motion I saw the crossbow bolt hit her in the chest, sinking in.
I generally use this fly as a top dropper on a three fly cast, and I have found that it is a good one to use on a sinking line.
This was in fact untrue as the vessel was not damaged and was not in danger of sinking.
They were covered head to toe in crude oil from a massive slick that had formed over the site of the sinking.
Evans skilfully avoids the gratuitously voyeuristic while never sinking into safe but dull academicism.
I am still shaken up and get very upset when I think about what I've been through, I have heart palpitations," said Miss Capuana, who escaped the sinking vessel along with her fiancé, her brother and his girlfriend. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Besides drink and foodstuffs the pack trains brought in the pickaxes, shovels and other ironware that the miners required when sinking shafts to reach bedrock.
The coffee has been sinking to the bottom of the container and creating an icy layer.
When the High Gods had destroyed Atlantis for its sins, the priests of Xotli and their slaves had fled from the sinking land in a mighty fleet of flying ships powered by the mysterious force called vril. Conan Of The Isles
The captain of a submarine is shown observing through the periscope a broken-backed merchantman, torpedoed fair amidships and sinking by the bow, with the complacent rhyme.
The American ship put up such resistance that Stier, after sinking her, went down too.
The gravy dripped on to the wooden table and on to my lap, the hot grease sinking into the blue cloth of my kirtle. TIME OF THE WOLF
The rest pressed on and were over the Mobile Fleet by 6: 30 P.M. In growing darkness, the Americans attacked, damaging several vessels and sinking three, the carrier Hiyo and two oilers.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell
She has looked weak and indecisive, sinking not swimming in the deadly currents of her job. Times, Sunday Times
With calls for Senator Clinton to abandon what is now seen as little more than a schismatic adventure that risks a fracture along a racial fault-line dividing the Democratic Party just as the Whig Party was fractured by race, some have deduced that the probable motive driving the sinking campaign deeper into the mire is a misplaced belief some attribute to James Carville that they can torpedo Obama's presidential ambitions; survive the disaster of his loss to McCain and prevail as owners of the Democratic Party through the agency of the now discredited Democratic Leadership Council. Michael Carmichael: The Political Titanic
As the sun was sinking below the horizon, we relaxed by the pool, sipping cognac and snoozing as the cockerels strutted about on the lawn nearby.
I would love to do something that meant more than sinking four-foot putts.
The captain exercised all reasonable diligence to prevent the ship from sinking.
His signature sinker wasn't sinking, and it appeared Brown relied on an arm angle that would put less pressure on his injury.
Edith relaxed, sinking back into her chair, crossing out something she had written on her notepad and exhaling.
The day will come when I too must be pushed from my stool by the workings of younger genius, and shall sink, as poor Mr. Brown is now sinking, into the foggy depths of fogeydom. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm
Notwithstanding the extreme cruelty shown to these animals, most of us fail to spare a thought on the matter, before sinking our teeth into a non-vegetarian fare.
The most obvious of these hurdles are the regular interest payments and sinking fund contributions. Principles of Corporate Finance
All around her Caroline could see that even some of the smaller boats were being sucked under the water by the pressure created by the sinking ship.
Intaglio is a type of incised relief in which the design does not project from the surface; rather it is cut into it, sinking below the surface.
Days of oppressive weariness and languor, whose realities have the feeble sickliness of dreams; nights, whose dreams are fierce realities of agony; sinking health, tottering frames, incipient madness, and worse, the consciousness of incipient madness; this is the price of their whistle. Mary Barton
Our ship of state's hulled, our economy's sinking.
Because 210 Po associates appreciably with organic matter inside cells, unlike other particlereactive nonessential metals, it could have promise as a tracer of sinking organic matter in the ocean.
It has recently been suggested that a deck hatch was missing from the Solway Harvester and this could have allowed water to swamp the hold, sinking the boat in minutes.
In the movies, the star is shown sinking several balls at once, or performing beautiful massé shots.
The foundations will have to be reinforced to prevent the house from sinking further into the ground.
The occurrence of these heavy ores near the base of the norite naturally suggests that they were segregated by sinking to the bottom of the molten magma, but this conclusion implies certain physical conditions of the magma which have not yet been proved. The Economic Aspect of Geology
As the exhausted and injured men slept below decks the ship was struck amidships by a torpedo from a German E-boat and she broke in two, sinking in just 15 seconds.
On a more serious note, it would appear that the world as a whole is sinking deeper into poverty.
Just as the throbbing in my ankle was beginning to cause me grief, the disappointment of defeat was sinking in. The Sun
But they wrought their awful romances of crime in lands where the sun of supreme civilization, through a gorgeous evening of Sybaritic luxury, was sinking, with red tints of revolution, into the night of anarchy and national caducity. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
Pulled by gravity and pushed by the weight of new rain sinking in, the water seeps down through the aquifer. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
The operator of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia said it formally suspended the captain who left the sinking vessel with passengers on board. What's News—
After having tumbled from above some time ago, it now quietly lies on the sand below, sinking, totally in submission to the slow erosional forces of the waves. Operation Beachhead
As bad luck would have it, nine German U-boats stumbled across the manoeuvres and torpedoed the ships, sinking two ships and damaging a third.
I felt that the plans team was slowly sinking into a morass of detail.
That surprising, sinking, excited feeling may be the essence of thought as felt experience, rather than as bare abstraction.
What effects they might suffer in their remaining years – my winter beachhouse in the keys was damaged by an especially harse hurricane so I had to rebuild by sinking poles 40′ down – are easily offset by the adaptability their affluence affords. Think Progress » Attacking Global Warming Science: Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way
That sinking feeling was back … and every University of South Carolina fan clad in garnet-and-black at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday afternoon could feel it. “The Drive”
When the British finally vacated the base in 1946, rather than giving anyone else the pleasure of sinking the ship that had proved so hard to kill, one of their destroyers was given the task.
The sun was now sinking, a fiery ball of light in the west.
Methods 34 consecutive patients were implanted HA piece or medpor under the periosteum. Using exophthalmometer to measure the degree of lid sinking before and after operation.
The most obvious of these hurdles are the regular interest payments and sinking fund contributions. Principles of Corporate Finance
Alas, as is so often the case in life, Lavengro and the reader are only just beginning to realise the beauty and the value of the "bellissima," as the man in black calls her, when she is on the point of sinking beneath our horizon, passing away like the brief music of an aubade. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825
Banks are sinking because they are the pooling spots of energy, like an adhesion aka knot in a muscle, it is a traffic jam to flow, the cause of pain and limited range of motion, banks are energetic blockages to the flow of energy, where greed stagnates. Evening Buzz: Bank Bailout
The sun was now sinking, a fiery ball of light in the west.
Jesus Corrales portrays the lovelorn Romeo with passion, sinking daggers into the heart of anybody in the audience with the slightest romantic sensibility.
St Mary's College at present is akin to a sinking ship, and this nth round of cutbacks and strikes merely serves to raise the tide ever higher.
While the sinking fund may not cover the full cost of such an operation, it can take the sting out of its tail.
Have to leave it to the last minute -- double-dyed criminals they may be but we can't have a couple of men go down in a sinking ship. SAN ANDREAS
There's a lot you can do to prevent common horrors such as 'gazundering', 'down-valuations' and collapsing chains from sinking your sale or torpedoing your purchase. Archive 2009-01-01
As the three of them looked on, the ship was sinking slowly and steadily into the water.
Such transitions2 often excite mirth, or other sudden and tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense. The Beautiful in Sounds
Monsters, stirred from the lightless ocean depths by the sinking of the lands, sometimes come ashore here in search of prey.
The sides are made from strong inflatable plastic, making sinking almost impossible. The Sun
Sinking into her comforter, I stared at the ceiling; pictured her in Italy, traipsing along the same ancient streets her great grandmother Nana had walked before she immigrated to America.
He pushed himself away from the car, splaying out his arms and sinking his fingers into the slimy mud. Gideon’s war
Something called the Delos, a private yacht, I should imagine, and, as you say, sinking. Santorini
They also have two large toes on their hooves that stop them sinking into deep snow. Times, Sunday Times
The effects of the cocktail on overload, the level and vertical acceleration on flight path angle, sinking velocity and extra required propulsion were analyzed during the glide of the aircraft.
There is a gleam of luminous gold , where the sinking western sun has found a first direct interstice in the clouds.
Then leaving the sinking boat far behind he waded with powerful strides back to the shore. The Gods of Asgard
The sun was sinking rapidly below the western horizon.
- Harper tells consumers & investors to keep buying into the stock market while it's sinking faster than the titanic is another brillant idea, lose all your saving lose your home! CTV News RSS Feed
I don't realise I am driving fast, but am woken up by screeching brakes, a confused horizon, loud shouts and a sinking feeling.
No pep talk is going to be as meaningful as sinking a basket or two.
The latter part of this story left me with a sinking feeling. Times, Sunday Times
Until there is a real far-reaching agenda that will stop Scotland's economy sinking ever further into the mire, nothing will really change.
What you need is a fast sinking line with a leader of no more than two feet in length.
In true darts tradition, Ian gets his preparation in by sinking down a few pints to settle the nerves.
They braved the storm to reach the sinking ship.
Tick the top of the vegetation with the fast-sinking Lucky Craft ¾-ounce LV-500 rattler in aurora black and the Bagley B Flat II Coffin Lip in silver with a black back, which dives to 10 feet. Field & Stream's Guide to the Best Crankbaits for Spring Bass
These were words to rewaken all the happiest purposes of my expedition, and they recovered me from the nerveless, sinking state into which my exhaustion had cast me, as if by a miracle. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
The second hand flickered two hundred and thirty more times until she was sinking her teeth into pure air. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The land is sinking, due to isostacy and the compaction of sediments, much faster than the sea is rising, because rivers are now embanked and not allowed to deposit new sediment on the flood plains. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
`Sinking oh so beautifully under the weight of debts and tax and deathwatch beetle and dangerous wiring and inadequate heating. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
For miles and miles men were quickly at work sinking holes into the ground; camp-fires were flaming; teamsters were inspanning and outspanning their oxen, and wagons were creaking. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
Construction began by countersinking the holes for the bolster rivets slightly.
But the boat was sinking fast and when the stern went under, a rush of air pushed four people out of the cabin.
The sinking occurred because somebody cut each of the vessel's eight mooring ropes by which she was attached to two shoreside bollards.
The scope of the crucible is always brought home to me by one single moment: The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff on January 30, 1945. A conversation with bestselling author Chris Bohjalian about his novel, Skeletons at the Feast
It may be an ancient pendulum clock, whose sinking weight, after it has been wound, will supply the energy.
And because thou rescuest people from difficulties whether when they are afflicted in the wilderness or sinking in the great ocean, it is for this that thou art called Durga [10] by all. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
There are gravestones sinking and falling in the ground.
That what we here urge is true, i.e. that there are such presentative movements in the sensory organs, any one may convince himself, if he attends to and tries to remember the affections we experience when sinking into slumber or when being awakened. On Dreams
Among the clutter of computer screens, racks of original prints and an underwater camera casing are enlarged copies of the rare archive photographs taken of the sinking boats.
So how exactly does an unsinkable ship end up sinking? Times, Sunday Times
In course of sinking the well - shaft they came upon a deposit of a very rare mineral.
The little prince to the earth, when he understood her ridiculous trick behind Embrace in tenderness, when he's sad, such as sinking, soaring on the planet monkey bread tree.
We landed about a hundred feet from the headquarters ten, sinking into the grass up to the cargo deck.Sentencedict
Their rifles made a common report, when, sinking on his wounded limb, part of the body of the savage came into view.
With sinking hearts, we made a beeline for Buchanan Street and spent two hours buying a chunky-knit cardigan, three pairs of 60 - denier woolly tights and a luminous-yellow stripy vest (half-price).
He shows that a slab of the oceanic lithosphere beneath the west coast of America is sinking, almost without check, through the Earth's upper mantle and down into the lower mantle.
One of Arthur's sparks of kindly feeling awoke when he beheld his once handsome, high-spirited sister, altered and wrapped up, entering the room with an invalid step and air; and though she tried to look about in a bright 'degage' manner, soon sinking into the cushioned chair by the window with a sigh of languor. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife
In the presence of kaolinite and illite, aggregate sizes were smaller and sinking rates lower than in the presence of smectite and quartz.
He shouted to me that the boat was sinking.
Her 14 crew took to the lifeboats; the ship spent a fortnight jammed on the rocks before sinking into a steep gully, stern in 3m and bow in just 6m.
Western NC has its points of beauty (Asheville), but remember that there are plenty of hillbillies and inbreeds out there ... for this guy to truly represent his constituents, he has to jump on the sinking ship ... More North Carolina superdelegates weigh in
The sun was now sinking, a fiery ball of light in the west.
Prayer is the safety - belt when we are sinking in the ocean of Samsara.
Once the toxic assets have been rendered atoxic, the credit default swap insurance problem that is presently sinking the global financial system soon becomes an historical footnote. Cara Community
That is why every sailor in the world, outside the doggeries of Hamburg, felt his calling spat upon and his personal pride injured by the sinking of the _Lusitania_ -- by a sailor. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
The long silence about the sinking of Gustlaff and other tragedies of that period - the saturation bombing of cities like Dresden, for example - was perhaps unavoidable.
It was hard for him to be aware of her; he kept sinking back into black preoccupation.
What do you grab onto when the ship is sinking and the waters are closing over your head?
Aurore now found herself in the hands of a woman of the people, ennobled for a time by beauty and a true affection, but sinking, her good inspiration gone, into the bitterest ill-temper and most vulgar uncharity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
With a lousy economy and a sinking stock market, equity funds were doomed.
Four sailors were winched to safety from their sinking 100,000 boat - after their life rafts were locked up. The Sun
Jason picked up the phone and dropped it on the ground before sinking to his knees.
‘I suffered with the people,’ she said, her voice sinking to a whisper.
I could not swim; but one of the midshipmen offered to accompany me, stating that I need not be afraid, if I fell overboard, of sinking to the bottom, as if I was giddy, my head, at all events, _would swim_; so Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
It is not about encouraging people to leave a sinking ship. Times, Sunday Times
She saw feet sinking into the thick pile of the new rugs whose abstract patterns evoked the work of contemporary artists.
Warrior stroke Jingtao hack flow without sinking, coward in be in smooth water will drown.
Fleas desert a dead rat faster than rats desert a sinking ship, and that makes sense.
As the water settled and all became placid again only the wrecked and sinking craft remained, alone in the sea.
Christ crucified is the power of God (1 Cor.i. 24); let him by a lively faith take hold of him, as a man that is sinking catches hold of a bough, or cord, or plank, that is within his reach, or as the malefactor took hold of the horns of the altar, believing that there is no other name by which he can be saved, by which he can be reconciled. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Only Enid could dare him at such a time, and even she felt occasionally that sinking of the heart which the bravest of tamers may experience as he unbars the gate of the cage. The Land of Mist
A heavy shower of rain had laid the dust and every clean, little leaf on the great shisham trees that lined either side of the highway glinted and sparkled from the refection of the sinking orb of day. Daughters of India
On the other hand, the blockade enforcers have the right to seize by force (including sinking, should the ship prove recalcitrant — in practice most captains had the decency and valor to surrender to a militarily superior force instead of martyring themselves) any ship violating the blockade. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
When they didn't get back by midnight, I got that sinking feeling.
The container can be designed to avoid sinking through the partial melt so that its location remains fixed and known.
Five times he has trudged away with that horrible, sinking feeling of defeat. The Sun
As they passed a sort of kitchen, suddenly the walls were wallpapered, and the next thing she knew her paws were sinking into thick shag carpeting.
Very likely," I thought, "the repentant-knight, who warned me of the evil which has befallen me, was busy retrieving his lost honour, while I was sinking into the same sorrow with himself; and, hearing of the dangerous and mysterious being, arrived at his tree in time to save me from being dragged to its roots, and buried like carrion, to nourish him for yet deeper insatiableness. Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
Joining him and his crew are two survivors from the sinking, which enables Cameron to film their reactions at memorial services for HMS Hood and the Bismarck.
The suddenness of the attack left no time to launch lifeboats, so the 900 sailors who escaped the sinking ship found themselves floating in life jackets.
In theory, if you could keep all external contaminants out of deionized water you could have a pc that is water cooled by sinking it in water. How To Save Your Keyboard After A Spill | Lifehacker Australia
Because less dense water tends to be shallower, this will tend to move sinking plankton and sediment toward the crest of banks, toward the coast, and up embayments, even in the absence of any mean currents.
Lieutenant and boat's crew put off in confusion from the sinking vessel, and begged of Commodore Ingraham to cease firing, telling him that the water was already up to the berth-deck, and that they surrendered. Illustrations of the War in America
What started off as a fascinating delve into the secret world of ghost-hunting has become a parody of itself, sinking into a mire of its own making.
What other chart stars could the sinking soap recruit?
We were sinking fast, and the captain gave the order to abandon ship.
The physicians attending the President have announced that he is sinking fast.
Golf courses once tamed and made to look impotent are sinking their teeth into him. Times, Sunday Times
A number of earlier explanations for the sinking included an accidental collision with an unexploded sea mine left over from the Korean War.
The two men were winched out of the sinking boat by an RAF helicopter.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell
The ship is sinking and nobody with a sense of self-preservation wants to stick around this mess anyway.

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