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- noun Plural form of
sinking .
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Examples
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Indonesia, an archipelago nation with more than 17,000 islands and 235 million people, has been plagued by a string of transportation accidents in recent years, from plane and train crashes to ferry sinkings.
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The first was that the Central Powers should be broken by the blockade before our supplies of food and essential raw material were cut off by sinkings of our own ships.
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The last historical estimates indicate over one hundred and eighty reported sinkings in that span, and about half that many again that went to the bottom unreported for one reason or another.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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Researchers there have theorized that some unexplained ship sinkings may have been caused by giant bubbles of methane.
Sewer Ice « Isegoria 2008
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Several months later, inexplicable sinkings of oil rigs are reported, along with strange ocean-bottom activity.
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The last historical estimates indicate over one hundred and eighty reported sinkings in that span, and about half that many again that went to the bottom unreported for one reason or another.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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Researchers there have theorized that some unexplained ship sinkings may have been caused by giant bubbles of methane.
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William Garzke, a naval architect who investigates ship accidents and sinkings, said the blaze could have been triggered from a burst pipe or the short circuiting of an electrical cable.
Thousands Stranded on Disabled Cruise Liner Timothy W. Martin 2010
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The Confederates lost 21 crewmen in three sinkings during the CSS Hunley's career.
AS SEEN ON TV: THE CREW OF THE H.L. HUNLEY Toby O'B 2010
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Shipping insurers, merchant marine associations do not want this escalated into violent attacks and sinkings of their vessels and loss of crew.
"Our special operations people have been itching to clean them up." Ann Althouse 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word sinkings
(pl. noun) - Toothache and neuralgia. From Dutch zinkings, rheumatism.
--Charles Pettman's Africanderisms: A Glossary of South African Colloquial Words and Phrases, 1913
January 17, 2018