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Example sentences for "capsize"

Lexicographically close words:
capriciousness; caproic; caps; capsheaf; capsicums; capsized; capsizing; capstan; capstans; capstern
  1. Geoff leaned over the side of the dinghy, threatening to capsize it, and, placing his lips to the ear of the thoroughly startled Turk, spoke to him sternly.

  2. A regular sort of mud lark," Phil called out as the launch ran on a submerged bank of mud, and came to an abrupt halt, causing the bellum towing nearest to her to collide violently with her stern and capsize promptly.

  3. Here I send you away to pick up people, and you have the cheek to capsize my boat and make yourself and 'No.

  4. To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

  5. The Victoria was bound to capsize with the injury she received.

  6. If we capsized yew we should capsize ourselves too, and what's more, our missuses at home, and that wouldn't do.

  7. When it is fastened tightly about his face, wrists, and the cockpit hoop, he can capsize without getting water in the kayak.

  8. Wait till she gets a bit lower or we shall capsize her.

  9. With four paddles going the steersman had somewhat more control over her, but as she flew down the seething water, glanced past rocks and sprang over falls, Tom expected her to capsize every moment.

  10. Keep her head close to the wall, for if the current catches it and takes her round she would capsize in a moment against those rocks.

  11. Yes, they will be licked clean off their perch, If they capsize the Irish Church, For Gladstone will give them the sack, They’ll have no work to do.

  12. For it is a great shame man, that with Bradlaugh and Finlen, and the rest of your Pets, should make this cabal, to capsize church and constitution.

  13. I'll capsize him as soon as I get close enough," said Harry between his teeth, and he knelt ready in the boat, as it approached nearer and nearer.

  14. But be careful, or it will capsize you; I don't think it's dead.

  15. At the mouth of Kettle Creek, about a mile and a half below the capsize rapid, we stopped for dinner.

  16. Jack helped me in and then I balanced his effort so as not to capsize again.

  17. A Capsize in Delaware Bay (100K) Kicking myself free of the canvas deck, I struck out from under the shell, and quickly rose to the surface.

  18. Still more disconcerting was the fact that the cords were useless, since the least jerk to right or left threatened to capsize the canoe instantly.

  19. The scene of Ned's capsize was now a good mile in the rear, and he was satisfied that he would reach the bank in a short time--unless some unforseen event occurred.

  20. As Andrew warned us, the shock the iceberg had received by the ship striking against it might have detached what are called calves, great lumps from the bottom, and, should the gale increase, it might capsize in an instant.

  21. About thirty were already on it, and so alarmed were they lest the number crowding on it might capsize it, that, ill-provisioned as they were, they cut it adrift.

  22. They are too deep to capsize and, at sea, there's no more drinking.

  23. The pressure of the wind, upon two masts and hull, had nearly sufficed to capsize her.

  24. But Margery was laying the course far to the right, though to do it she was holding the catboat cockpit-deep in the smother and taking the chance of a capsize with every recurring gust.

  25. It asked for their united strength to get the gray-haired, heavy-bodied victim of the capsize over the Clytie's rail.

  26. My driver happened to capsize it into a sluit two days before, and, to complete my misfortune, I lost four of my best trek oxen in the river by sinking in the mud.

  27. My Bushmen knew that water could be found at Hoodedoon, and the dry river where we managed to capsize the waggon.

  28. His appearance there, however, was not approved of, the blacks by their actions showing that they considered it highly probable that their visitor would get entangled with the bamboos of the outrigger and capsize the boat.

  29. Before they turned to fly, they made a desperate attempt to capsize the boat, and to carry off some of the English as prisoners.

  30. After the capsize Hamilton managed to reach the boat and turn her over, and Blake made for a kelp-hung rock, but, after pulling himself up on to it, was immediately washed off and had to swim ashore.

  31. The pace became so hot that a small obstacle would capsize the sledge, causing it to roll over and over down the slope.

  32. But whether it will bring me in "shekels" enough to capsize Paris remains yet to be "disskivered" as the Negro says.

  33. The raft, submerged by their double weight, might afford a sufficient depth of water for the sharks, growing bold, to snatch them from it, or possibly to capsize it.

  34. Besides, I might capsize it, and what then?

  35. At Teignmouth they determined that the trial should be of a very practical and somewhat sensational nature--a capsize out at sea!

  36. In about one quarter of an hour she was making her way out to sea, and then her crew endeavoured to capsize her; they had tried in vain to do so in smooth water, would she defy their efforts in a rough tumble of sea and heavy weather?

  37. I was well aware that, unless the centre of gravity was kept well down, my boat would capsize and spill out all the air when in use, and to prevent this I made these movable steps, which it is difficult to describe.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capsize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    capsize; careen; fall; flounder; founder; keel; list; lurch; overset; overthrow; overturn; pitch; reverse; revolution; scuttle; shipwreck; sink; somersault; spill; sprawl; stagger; stumble; subversion; subvert; tilt; tip; topple; totter; trip; tumble; turn; turnover; upset; upturn