like rats leaving a sinking ship|like rat leave a sinking ship in English

behaving in a manner so as to save oneself before it is too late

Use "like rats leaving a sinking ship|like rat leave a sinking ship" in a sentence

1. The Captain is the last man to leave a sinking ship

2. "When our funding got cut, our Advisory Committee left us like a sinking ship.

3. IMAGINE being trapped on a sinking ship.

4. They abandoned the sinking ship.

5. Sinking Ship Kyle Thompson / Agence VU

6. A dirge over the sinking ship of Tyre (1-36)

7. Fleet escapes the sinking ship aboard Lifeboat 6.

8. Consider again the illustration of being rescued from a sinking ship.

9. It was sometimes used to describe the sinking of a ship.

10. As indicated by the illustration, hurriedly leaving an endangered ship by taking to insecure lifeboats would be as dangerous as staying aboard a sinking ship.

11. Takes your mind off the rain and off of a sinking ship.

12. Patroni received an official commendation after rescuing twelve people from a sinking ship.

13. The regime responded by sinking a South Korean Navy ship, killing 46 Korean sailors.

14. Abandon definition, to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert: to Abandon one's farm;to Abandon a child;to Abandon a sinking ship

15. Abandon definition, to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert: to Abandon one's farm;to Abandon a child;to Abandon a sinking ship

16. Sinking or capsizing due to the unintended accumulation of water inside the ship.

17. But if his loyalty is misplaced, it is as if his lifeline were attached to a sinking ship.

18. The captain of the sinking ship used flares to attract the attention of the coastguard.

19. If we can pump all the water out, we can save the ship from sinking.

20. The snow fell heavily, in a long pile like a sinking mountain range.

21. I am sinking, merely sinking

22. One day Hoover hurried to Berlin to protest against the piratical act of a German submarine in sinking a Belgian relief ship.

23. To prevent the ship from sinking, the bulkheads to some of her 12 watertight compartments were closed immediately.

24. I like the ship with a yellow funnel.

25. We need not be like a ship adrift.