sinking ship
Example Sentences
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"We're the ones still here. We're standing up. We're shouting for our players. We're backing them 100%. And he's just run off like a rat from a sinking ship."
From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025
Those lost at sea or aboard a sinking ship have used them as a last-ditch effort to call for help.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024
Who buys a ticket to get on a sinking ship?
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024
Were that not sufficiently beyond the pale, their client then took the helm of the sinking ship and plunged it farther into the rocks by repeating the same lies directly to the judge.
From Slate • Jan. 16, 2024
The boy was bent over, as if lost in the ocean on that dark night with the rain pounding on the waves, and his captain and everyone he loved on the sinking ship.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
