Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sinking ship

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables: sink-ing -ship
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something which is doomed; an impending debacle; an ongoing disaster.

Example Sentences

"He said that […] Bella had been perfectly right to leave him, because he was a sinking ship, and deserved to be turned out penniless into the world."
"[…]you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified—and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony."
"My word, won't it be funny when there's no Tevershall pit working. […] And now the men say it's a sinking ship, and it's time they all got out."
"[T]he only future for Syria is without the Assad political dynasty. […] The government is a sinking ship."

Inflected Forms

sinking ships (plural)

Phrases

like rats from a sinking ship

Synonyms

lost cause

Questions

What does sinking ship mean?: Something which is doomed; an impending debacle; an ongoing disaster.

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