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Recent Examples of unsinkableAt first, Taiwan was primarily a military asset – an unsinkable aircraft carrier off China’s coast – whose cultural similarity to China enabled its companies to partner with American firms, investing in China during the 1980s.—Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025 So the analysis confirmed the testimony of naval architect Edward Wilding—who helped design Titanic—as to how a ship touted as unsinkable could have met such a fate.—ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025 An unsinkable interest Titanic kids — and often by extension, their parents — know all about the sister ships, the R.M.S. Olympic and the H.M.H.S. Britannic; the rescue of the surviving passengers by the R.M.S. Carpathia; and the classes of passengers (first, second and third).—Janet Manley, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025 This hybrid amphibious boat combines performance and comfort, transitioning from land to water in seconds, and is virtually unsinkable.—Jim Dobson, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unsinkable
Median net worth may be up in the long-term, as evidenced by buoyant consumer spending (and even some splurging), but shoppers are currently taking on more debt, and parking their real money in their homes and 401 (k) accounts while reserving cash flow for necessities like food and utilities.
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Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
23 Oct. 2025
But the varied syncopation and intense emotional registers of Orthodox worship music informed his approach to an album that balances weighty introspection with buoyant production and evocative imagery.
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Hannah Giorgis Yohannes,
Rolling Stone,
20 Oct. 2025
Companies with a smaller market value generally tend to have more floating rate debt than larger businesses.
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Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
Social media posts and years of reviewing cookie-cutter luxury hotels had conditioned me to equate floating breakfasts, monogrammed accessories, butler service, and aromatherapy menus as markers of a dreamy luxury vacation.
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Katherine Alex Beaven,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Oct. 2024
According to Bookman, his partner was struggling with substance abuse and was barely able to stay afloat, even with the success of his invention.
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Otto Rabe,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
24 Oct. 2025
Earlier this month, the Department of Agriculture used tax revenue to allocate $300 million to keep the program — known in full as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children — afloat.
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