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Meanings of sunken ship in English

Watercraft which has been sunk.

Usage of sunken ship in English
1
China has avoided taking sides in the issue of the sunken ship.
Reuters
2
You may tangle with a sunken ship you didn't know was there.
On the Beach
3
Luke glanced at his master, then looked doubtfully toward the sunken ship.
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
4
Water leaves no mark over the grave of a sunken ship.
Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
5
In '61, Wilson and two young boys discovered a sunken ship.
The new yorker
6
You know it isn't easy to get treasure out of a sunken ship.
Tom Swift and His Undersea Search; Or, the Treasure on the Floor...
7
But what's the point of stabilizing an already sunken ship?
The South African
8
What they are doing in the city round the sunken ship will shortly be apparent.
The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 28, April 1893 / An Illustr...
9
It only remains to find the sunken ship now.
Tom Swift and His Undersea Search; Or, the Treasure on the Floor...
10
They had a good view of the sunken ship.
Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat; Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken...
11
The sunken ship proved to be a Russian steamer.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
12
At-first it seemed a derelict, perhaps a sunken ship.
Existence
13
You didn't give the location of the sunken ship.
Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat; Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken...
14
No wonder: the wreckers were employed in clearing the ballast out of a sunken ship!
The Boy Slaves
15
Its scientists hope also to look for the Endurance, the sunken ship of Sir Ernest Shackleton.
BBC
16
This is the amazing thing the religion did: it turned a sunken ship into a submarine.
Orthodoxy
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Sunken ship through the time
Sunken ship across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common