What is "sinkings"

Usage examples of "sinkings".

If not for malfunctioning torpedoes we'd be heading home with a couple of major sinkings chalked up.

The Englishman, perching himself in a high-backed chair, began to needle Leslie Slote about the U-boat sinkings off the Atlantic shore.

The BBC had just confirmed appalling German figures for December sinkings off the American coast.

On the high seas, Hitler's U-boats are so close to cutting the American supply route to Europe that the Allied press itself trumpets alarm, admitting that the sinkings are in the millions of tons.

Coming when Sevastopol was falling to Manstein and our U-boat sinkings were spiking upward, the fall of Tobruk shook the world.

The reported submarine sinkings the day before had failed to shake him.

Amelia Sinkings stood at her kitchen sink, peeling apples with stiff arthritic fingers.

The Luftwore kept up heavy night raids on the cities, and this with the U-boat sinkings made the outlook for England darker and darker until Hitler attacked the Soviet Union.

The submarine sinkings, at their present rate, might ground the British planes for lack of fuel.

The sinkings are outrunning the combined capacity of our yards plus the British yards to build new bottoms.

Everything else-submarine sinkings, land campaigns, air battles-more and more looked to him like vain blood-spillings, inconclusive obsolete gestures before this one big showdown, Hitler's plunge into Russia, opening a second front and releasing England from near doom, struck him as a madman's mistake-unless the Germans had successfully created a controlled chain reaction.

Two steps further and Aillas saw Sinkings Gap, a narrow crevice into the cliff.

But if NP I comes home with a string of sinkings and a world cruise behind her, they'll go for it.

There was a fierce precision about his sinkings, even amid the tumult of burning ships, star shells and thudding torpedoes.

Perhaps he remembered the sinkings and the glory in the Mediterranean.