Explore Unseaworthy through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like leaky or seaworthy. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Unseaworthy in a sentence
Unseaworthy meaning
Unfit for a sea voyage.
Using Unseaworthy
- The main meaning on this page is: Unfit for a sea voyage.
- Useful related words include: leaky, seaworthy.
- In the example corpus, unseaworthy often appears in combinations such as: unseaworthy vessels, often unseaworthy, unseaworthy boats.
Context around Unseaworthy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unseaworthy
- In this selection, "unseaworthy" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, onto, smugglers, highly, vessels and boats stand out and add context to how "unseaworthy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include condemned as unseaworthy and were and craft was unseaworthy and asked. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unseaworthy" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unseaworthy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Thousands of migrants have drowned trying to reach European shores in recent years aboard migrant smugglers’ unseaworthy vessels. (18 words)
The Atlantic route is perilous due to the strong currents, with thousands of deaths and disappearances every year on overloaded, often unseaworthy boats. (23 words)
Government officials in Athens have dismissed criticism of the coast guard as unjust, maintaining that blame rests squarely on smugglers who overload migrants onto unseaworthy vessels. (26 words)
Stanley and the Falkland Islands are famous as the repository of many wrecks of 19th-century ships that reached the islands only to be condemned as unseaworthy and were often employed as floating warehouses by local merchants. (37 words)
While Campbell refers to heavy batteries requiring a "load-bearing hull" and "cranky, even unseaworthy vessels", Desmond points out that electric boaters tend to prefer efficient, low-wash hull forms that are more friendly to river banks. (37 words)
Although the influx has been limited drastically since that time, when daily crossings were often in the thousands, hundreds continue to reach Greek islands in smuggling vessels that are often old, flimsy and unseaworthy. (34 words)
Example sentences (11)
Government officials in Athens have dismissed criticism of the coast guard as unjust, maintaining that blame rests squarely on smugglers who overload migrants onto unseaworthy vessels.
On an overnight expedition with the National Guard last week, The Associated Press witnessed migrants pleading to continue their journeys to Italy in unseaworthy vessels, some taking on water.
But the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands is particularly dangerous because of strong currents, with migrants travelling in overloaded, often unseaworthy, boats without enough drinking water.
The Atlantic route is perilous due to the strong currents, with thousands of deaths and disappearances every year on overloaded, often unseaworthy boats.
Thousands of migrants have drowned trying to reach European shores in recent years aboard migrant smugglers’ unseaworthy vessels.
Although the influx has been limited drastically since that time, when daily crossings were often in the thousands, hundreds continue to reach Greek islands in smuggling vessels that are often old, flimsy and unseaworthy.
Since the 2011 fall and killing of longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi, Libya has become a key launch pad for migrants making desperate bids to reach Europe, often on unseaworthy vessels.
Quarstein, 2010, p. 106 While the design of Monitor was well-suited for river combat, her low freeboard and heavy turret made her highly unseaworthy in rough waters.
Stanley and the Falkland Islands are famous as the repository of many wrecks of 19th-century ships that reached the islands only to be condemned as unseaworthy and were often employed as floating warehouses by local merchants.
The ship called in for provisions at the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile, and Selkirk judged correctly that his craft was unseaworthy and asked to be left there.
While Campbell refers to heavy batteries requiring a "load-bearing hull" and "cranky, even unseaworthy vessels", Desmond points out that electric boaters tend to prefer efficient, low-wash hull forms that are more friendly to river banks.
Common combinations with unseaworthy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: