capsize - use in sentences

Object

  • kayak: Or deliberately capsize the kayak to teach her fortitude?
  • drill: First things first, being the cruel father I am, I made her do half a dozen capsize drills.
  • ship: All around is an empty ocean with just the stern of a capsized ship in the distance.
  • vessel: A number of us read of the launching in horrendously heavy seas which capsized the vessel.

Modifying Another Word

  • n't: Rocking Boat with Rocking Horse Action Pitch and toss with rocking horse action; the Rocking Boat wo n't capsize.

Preposition: in

  • race: The second race ( Race 3 ) was won by Jonathon House who had recovered well from a capsize in the previous race.

Modifying Another Word

  • almost: They then transferred the youths ashore, at one point the lifeboat being almost capsized by breaking surf.
  • just: They reached the Seraph despite the heavy surf, tho General Clark's boat capsized just as it got alongside.
  • not: Or it would have done, if the ship had not capsized.

Used with why or when

  • when: We had a problem with the sheet of the jib and we capsized when we tried to tack.

Preposition: in

  • sea: On the 6 th August 1912, a boat with six men on board was capsized in the sea at Harwich.
  • storm: Shelley died when the rather unstable boat in which he was sailing in Mediterranean with a companion capsized in a storm.
  • weather: More importantly, they are designed to save your life, even in the event of being capsized in foul weather.

Preposition: by

  • wave: A luxury ocean liner is capsized by a giant rogue wave on New Year's Eve.

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