capsize

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• At the apex of each leap, the whales barrel-roll, or capsize backward.

• Lacking power, the ship was driven shoreward toward rocks, rolling and pitching so uncontrollably it nearly capsized.

• One is tilted sideways and sinking like a capsized ship, while “Benefits of Isolation” is a prisonlike tower that looks like a model of a relic from a vanished civilization.

• NBC 7 reports that the County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the names of the three people who died Sunday after a “severely overcrowded” boat capsized in the waters off Point Loma.

• They looked like toy ships on uncertain seas—heaving starboard, falling portside, too much in the bow, sinking in the stern—but they didn’t capsize.

• Q: Trying to overthrow the Constitution and deliberately capsize the U.S. economy?

• Men may refuse the challenge of trying to right a ship on the verge of capsize, preferring to wait for an easier test.

• I am grieved to say that Mr. Billings remarked, "Let's go aboard the blank, and capsize the whole blank trunk."

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

• Now all hung by a hair, we could not manage the boat and it must inevitably capsize and be swamped under this foaming crest.

• Kiv-i-ung, who had never abused the boy, had gone out with the rest, but his kayak did not capsize.