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How To Use unsinkable In A Sentence

• Eskimo kaiak or skin boat, made of dressed seal hides stretched around a framework of whale ribs or wood, with an opening in the top only large enough to accommodate the sitting body of one man, is one of the most perfect contrivances in the world for water travel, being light, swift, and practically unsinkable. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
• It was only in the aftermath of the disaster that the belief took hold that Titanic had been considered unsinkable, highlighting the stunned and universal surprise at the loss of Britain's most advanced ocean giant.
• But it is because of hydrogen bonds that ice floats, and the iceberg can sink even the unsinkable ship.
• A little before midnight on 14 April the Titanic, which was considered unsinkable, collided with an iceberg about 650 km south of Newfoundland.
• Every mountain is unclimbable until someone climbs it. So every ship is unsinkable until it sinks.
• And there were a whole bunch of people who said that the Titantic was unsinkable.
• So how exactly does an unsinkable ship end up sinking? Times, Sunday Times
• Built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the 45,000-ton Titanic was considered the most advanced vessel of her time and thought to be unsinkable.
• But we are unlikely to learn why disaster struck this supposedly unsinkable submarine. ‘The secrecy regime will be observed in full,’ said a spokesman for the Northern Fleet.
• These circular basket boats are like large, unsinkable, cane saucers covered in buffalo-hide or plastic.