How to Use unseaworthy in a Sentence

unseaworthy

adjective

• He and Dance planned to sail away and live the rest of their days abroad, but the boat was unseaworthy after years of neglect.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2019
• The removal of the trim tabs and the faulty repairs rendered the boat unseaworthy and in poor condition.
  — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 25 Sep. 2016
• Libya is a hub for migrants and refugees, many of whom try to reach Europe in unseaworthy boats.
  — Reuters, The Mercury News, 25 July 2019
• At least 723 people are known to have either died or gone missing taking this route on unseaworthy boats so far this year.
  — Renata Brito, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• This boat was unseaworthy & no matter what some people on board may have said, the notion of distress cannot be discussed.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• Photographs of the needy huddled in unseaworthy craft recall the migrant crisis of five years ago.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• Scores died when their unseaworthy boats sank or capsized during the short but perilous crossing.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
• The case comes amid strong reluctance in Italy to take in any more of the migrants who human traffickers launch toward Europe in unseaworthy boats.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
• Hundreds died at sea due to a combination of lack of supplies, stormy seas and unseaworthy vessels.
  — Anita Rachman, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Libya is a hub for migrants and refugees, many of whom try to reach Europe in unseaworthy boats, fleeing violence and dire poverty in Africa for a better life in Europe.
  — Reuters, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
• Ryan Sims, a cook on the boat who broke his leg trying to escape the flames, claimed in a separate lawsuit that the boat was unseaworthy and operated in an unsafe manner.
  — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2019
• Those who do make it out of the detention centers, and take to the sea on packed, unseaworthy boats, rely on rescues by European vessels for their survival.
  — Lorenzo D'agostino, CNN, 23 Dec. 2017
• Whether or not that’s true doesn’t matter, just the outcome—after sea trials, Vixen and her sister, Viper, were considered too slow and were deemed unseaworthy.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2022
• SOS Mediterranee said some passengers told rescuers they were beaten by smugglers based in Libya and forced to embark on the unseaworthy dinghies despite high waves.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2021
• Separately, Ryan Sims, a cook on the vessel who broke his leg trying to escape the flames, claimed in his own lawsuit that the boat was unseaworthy and operated in an unsafe manner.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019
• However, the coast guards of the two countries also carry out rescues of migrants on the often unseaworthy vessels people smugglers launch from Libya.
  — Frank Jordans, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2019
• Most migrants attempt to cross the 50 or so miles from Bimini to Florida aboard unseaworthy or overloaded boats.
  — Hannah Dormido, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• From those busy ports, migrants could stow away on trucks, generally a less risky option than crossing in often unseaworthy small vessels.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• By the time Seattle’s bats reawakened in a two-run fifth – the product of an infield single and a groundball double down each line – the Red Sox had taken a commanding lead thanks to an unseaworthy performance by the Mariners pitching staff.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2021
• Carman filled the holes with putty, which was inadequate and made the boat unseaworthy, several witnesses said.
  — Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Cornelius Vanderbilt made a fortune during the Civil War selling the Union army unseaworthy vessels.
  — Russell Shorto, Time, 17 Mar. 2021
• Roughly one of every six migrants who set out in traffickers’ unseaworthy boats from Libya perished at sea last month, UN refugee agency officials said on Friday.
  — Frances D’emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
• For decades, Cuban and Haitian migrants, desperate to escape poverty and human rights abuses, have boarded unseaworthy vessels and landed in the Florida Keys.
  — Frances Robles, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2023
• Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of migrants, fleeing conflict, poverty or persecution, have been rescued at sea from unseaworthy smugglers’ vessels that set off from Libya, and brought to Italian shores.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2017
• Johnson is right that the people who benefit most from the migration are people smugglers, who charge thousands of dollars for passage in often-unseaworthy vessels.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
• For the British government the pressing issue is its failure to curb the arrival of a small but steady flow of people making dangerous, sometimes fatal, crossings, often on unseaworthy boats, across the English Channel from France.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• Meanwhile, migrants are continuing to brave frigid weather in small boats and unseaworthy dinghies in hopes of getting to British shores to seek asylum or better opportunities.
  — Danica Kirka, ajc, 25 Nov. 2021
• The fishing vessel, like most smugglers’ ships in the waters between Libya and Italy, had been decommissioned and declared unseaworthy, its identifying numbers scratched off and flag removed.
  — Barbie Latza Nadeau, Scientific American, 13 May 2016
• In the case pondered by the Senate on Wednesday, migrants had been transferred to the Italian coast guard vessel after some of them were rescued by a cargo boat, while others were taken from their unseaworthy boat by an Italian border patrol vessel.
  — Fox News, 13 Feb. 2020
• Such aggressive moves could violate maritime law and endanger lives, if migrant vessels were unseaworthy and in distress.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024