How to Use capsize in a Sentence

capsize

verb

• They were fooling around and accidentally capsized the canoe.
• Powerful winds and high waves caused three of the Navy destroyers in the group to capsize.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian, 6 Jan. 2017
• While the cause of the sinking has not been determined, officials believe that a massive wave capsized it.
  — Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2024
• At 5:07 p.m., the Maltese called the Italians, telling them that the refugees' ship had capsized.
  — Anna Momigliano, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2017
• One night while Jordan was sleeping, his boat capsized, leaving him stranded more than 500 miles from home.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 3 Apr. 2015
• Due to strong currents in the river, their tandem kayak capsized and the couple became separated.
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Aug. 2015
• The vessel later capsized and was below the surface by 9 a.m. local time, New Zealand Defense Force said.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
• In good weather, the crossing typically took just 90 minutes, but the graveyards of Lesbos are filled with the bodies of unidentified refugees whose vessels had capsized en route.
  — Ali Arkady, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
• In good weather, the crossing typically took just 90 minutes, but the graveyards of Lesbos are filled with the bodies of unidentified refugees whose vessels had capsized en route.
  — Ali Arkady, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• What else is going on Two people died and several more are missing after two boats capsized off the Northern California coast amid dangerous winds.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
• This, as much as any one thing, capsized the Hoosiers in 2017.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2018
• The Coast Guard says the dead man's body was not retrieved and that the boat had capsized.
  — CBS News, 22 Sep. 2017
• That was if their boat did not fall apart or capsize along the way.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021
• Any of these tourist ships caught in the area at the wrong time would be helpless to capsize.
  — Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
• On about the third day of drifting, one of the aluminum boats capsized and sank.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 9 Oct. 2019
• The refugee boat that capsized went over in driving wind and rain and high seas.
  — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2017
• In 2017, boats capsized off both the Jupiter and the Boynton inlets.
  — Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• But before the panga reached the shore, a wave capsized the vessel.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
• The Young grazed the Lee and then smashed into the rocky shelf before capsizing.
  — Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• Some rushed through the final rapids, while others got hung up on the rocks, got pushed to the side, or capsized.
  — Annie Gentile, Courant Community, 23 Apr. 2018
• Sarah and John B's boat capsizes and, with no one around to rescue them, they are left to ride it out.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 22 Apr. 2020
• The boat ended up capsizing due to the strong currents of the river.
  — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
• In May 2016, there was one week when three wooden boats capsized.
  — Carola Rackete, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2019
• Waves shifted equipment on the deck, prompting the vessel to capsize and sink, the NTSB found.
  — chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• Or your strong emotions might well up out of the deep and threaten to capsize a mission.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 13 Nov. 2022
• The boat capsized, and four days later, Guillen's body was found floating in the creek below.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• The Coast Guard rescued four people and a dog from a boat that capsized in New Jersey.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Just this week, at least 13 women, some of them pregnant, died when their boat capsized off the coast of Italy.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 Oct. 2019
• Survivors said the boat that capsized had left Gambia on Nov. 27.
  — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2019
• But the overloaded skiff took on water fast — and capsized with the roll of a sudden swell.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2019

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024