How to Use sink or swim in a Sentence

sink or swim

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• There also are signs that these movies might not sink or swim based on the opening weekend alone.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2026
• So if the actors aren’t fantastic, the movie is going to sink or swim based on that.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
• Beyond Simmons, which shows will receive preferential placement, and which will be left to sink or swim?
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2026
• There is a lot more fine-tuning that needs to happen for teams that are getting ready for the playoffs, or teams trying to see who can sink or swim in the deep sea of development.
  — Law Murray, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
• The guess here is if Cisse has a respectable training camp, Green Bay will live with some early growing pains and sink or swim with him from the jump.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• Oftentimes the early career experience is pretty much sink or swim for everybody, regardless of gender.
  — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 16 June 2025
• After the gamble the Falcons made in the 2024 draft, Morris and Fontenot were clearly going to sink or swim based on how Penix fared, and Morris was the quarterback’s biggest public backer until the very end.
  — Josh Kendall, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026