How to Use capsize in a Sentence

capsize

verb
Definition of capsizenext
Synonyms for capsizenext
  • They were fooling around and accidentally capsized the canoe.
  • When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes in a desert land.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024
  • One police boat capsized and Sergeant Steve Perez drowned in his patrol car.
    — CBS News, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Then, four days later in the semifinals, its boat capsized and was damaged in violent winds.
    — Frank Bures, New York Times, 21 June 2017
  • There’s a lot of intensity: boats flooding and capsizing, oil ablaze in the ocean, bombs landing on the beach.
    — Eliza Berman, Time, 19 July 2017
  • Dive In: A new work project and health regimen that has potential to capsize your life in a good way.
    — Rebecca Gordon, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The original is deep and dark, and even Daniel Lanois's sweet-tooth for ju-ju production doesn't capsize it.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 4 Aug. 2017
  • But despite all the research, nothing can capsize a fantasy football team than a rash of injuries to top players.
    — Michael Salfino, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Two out of the dozen or so boats docked at Bayfront Marina, including a $4 million yacht, were capsized by the storm.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Colombia At least 9 people were killed, and more than two dozen still missing, after a tourist ferry capsized in Colombia on Sunday.
    — Kevin Vellturo, courant.com, 26 June 2017
  • According to the Washington County sheriff’s department, the three fishermen were in a canoe that capsized in the lake.
    — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 16 June 2017
  • But what looked like a promising project has now capsized under an ugly legal dispute between star-producer Gibson and one of the production companies behind the movie.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • 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

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