Sentence: i fold the brochure and hide it in my pocket and do n't tell anyone this as we sit in rick 's chinatown flat , his sofa as shapeless as a deflating dinghy , and the three of us , me , rick , and mark ray , all trapped on it together like survivors on the first day of month number two , adrift at sea .
Combination: a deflating dinghy (root: dinghy, modifier: deflate)
Property: unreliable
Property type: emergent