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Sentence Examples His face was flushed, and he had dark rings below the reddened eyes that were sunk deep into his face. I smiled my appreciation as she left and then sunk back into the seat feeling weak. The ship had 5 officers and 33 men on board when sunk, of whom 2 officers and 24 men were lost. She sunk into the part of her mind where she went when she had to meditate. And this was our darkest hour when we were absolutely on our beam ends and very nearly sunk. Is this a different ship or the same ship that is believed to have sunk off Kochi? What we get at the other end is a drunk, disillusioned rock star who drinks far too much and seems sunk in a permanent mire of melancholy. As the gold sailed back to England, the destroyer was hit and sunk by a magnetic mine. The carpet, a rich red mahogany, sunk a little to the touch, making it pleasant to walk on. Small vessels had been sunk outright, huge slabs of stone breaking their backs, while larger ships had been cratered and shattered by the rocks. Mr Godfrey took the hint and sunk back in his seat, muttering maledictions under his breath. There was more than one instance where claws sunk into soft tissue and offered them a small measure of success. Before the first shaft was sunk in 1900, the only buildings on this sweep of coast were an ancient manor house and its barns. But it turns out that she was the plywood tender to a fishing coble and had sunk in 3m the previous week. The way matters are shaping up, next year's poll could be sunk by what may be termed rampaging indifference. The main reason why the ship had sunk is presumed to be that it was poorly designed, highly overloaded with ballast and heavy armaments. This smooth and more experienced screwdriver had strengths mine did not, and it sunk the remaining loose screws deep into the wood. He went on to thank the people of Shipley for putting their trust in him and said news of the win had not yet sunk in. She had sunk down to lie on the grass and was absently playing with a bloom of meadowsweet. Bell pits were shallow, unsupported shafts dug on vein outcrops that widened into bell-like shapes as they were sunk. Show More Sentences The look of murderous, seething fury on my face must have finally sunk into his thick bovine head, because he turned and left. Anna sunk down onto the steps and hugged her dog tightly, feeling the sticky, matted fur cling to her hands. When she got into the room she sunk to the floor and the door slammed shut behind her. A minelayer and ex-battleship were sunk and three destroyers were wrecked in dry-dock. There was no way to measure the time she had been sunk in a blackness, the utter depths where nothing stirred. But in the end the film is sunk by toe-curling dialogue and transparently awkward emoting. These award-winning ales have been sunk in Helsinki, knocked back in New York and tippled in Tokyo. Had one of our aircraft-carriers or troopships been sunk before the troops got ashore, British forces would have been in deep trouble. Finishing the last morsel of food he could uncover on his tray, Ben sunk into his chair with a sigh, feeling content. Surprisingly, once the shock disappeared and reality sunk in, tears sprang to my eyes. For example, the midget submarine sunk by the USS Ward had the wrong bow and stern structure. Eventually, the next bend reveals a stand of huts, tottering on stilts sunk in the muddy wastes of the lapping river. Violet jabbed her stick at the cue and sunk the 8 in the middle of another, longer yawn. The warship, sunk by a German U-boat in 1939 with the loss of 833 lives, is a designated war grave. It seemed to help in a recent game, when he came in and got four straight Twins to ground out with sinkers that actually sunk. The first ship sunk by a German submarine in our coastal waters was torpedoed in this area. Rayne constantly had to pull her feet from the mud, because they sunk so far they were weighted down with mud. The water available in villages is drawn from wells sunk in tanks and lakes. He also has a piece of adhesive gum with drawing pins sunk in it which, when combined with a thick rubber band, makes a horrifying catapult. Steve Ryser and Mike Franklin sunk a long putt each on holes nine and eighteen respectively. Show More Sentences Trek sunk back into his lonely, dark state quickly as they walked up the porch and knocked on the front door of a ranch house. In that exchange, a North Korean torpedo boat was sunk and dozens of its sailors killed. Work is expected to begin shortly, and she may be ready to be sunk by next April. His deep, strong southern voice was getting wobbly, and his eyes welled as the realization of his firing a few weeks earlier sunk in. She placed her handbag on the empty window seat beside hers, took off her coat, and sunk into her seat, enjoying its comfort. Dance is about lifting us up from the mire we have sunk in and the classical art is a healing influence, which cuts across all barriers. Ships over taken by the gale were wrecked and sunk and the loss of life was estimated at 8,000 men. Les Pompiers were out in force, and alongside the dock a bareboat charter yacht was half sunk. The fabulous thing about these brownies is that each one is different, depending on which sweetie happens to be sunk alluringly into the mixture. The pedestal of this almucantar is an ordinary cast-iron gaspipe, about 9 in. in diameter externally, and 6 ft. long, sunk 3 ft. in the ground. The panther and cat yowled their fury but the ends of the vines sunk roots for themselves and were immovable. After five weeks in combat these soldiers sunk into a state of extreme exhaustion and lassitude. The ship that he was supposed to be on was torpedoed and sunk with the loss of all hands and kit. You've no doubt heard rumors of a reprise of 1998, when market panic sunk Long Term Credit Bank of Japan and Nippon Credit Bank. During the next three years, four inclined shafts were sunk along the strike of the lava flow to develop the lode. I saw a man at the close of day. Standing in the grocery door. His eyes were sunk, his lips were parched. Much-ballyhooed social programs have sunk in a mire of administrative muddling. Half an hour had already passed, and the shadows lengthened as the sun sunk into the horizon. Mary was still sunk in the mire of her own grief and no amount of reasoning would help to get her out of it. Brad sunk lower into his seat, letting his jacket ride up to cover the back of his head. Show More Sentences Average life expectancy has sunk dramatically and young people have been robbed of any chance to find a reasonable job. By 2001, the New York trading price for unroasted arabica coffee had sunk below 40 cents per pound. All those remote-control toys bought for tweeners get played with for an hour or two and then get sunk into the miasma of a child's bedroom. The blue fairy took one look at the hand and sunk her teeth deep into the tip of Becki's index finger, drawing blood. Bismarck, which was the pride of the German Navy, was sunk by the British armada in just about 90 minutes. No matter how far I may have sunk because of low self-esteem, there has always been a spirit of survival and hope. An artesian bore was sunk at Kopperamanna and the mission was able to collect fees from passing drovers. When Scottish author Candia McWilliam lost her sight at the age of 52, she could have sunk deeper into her seclusion. A small exploitative class of intermediaries benefited enormously from the neocolonial relationship, but the masses were sunk in abject poverty and misery. Then, on the morning after Christmas in 1996, John found JonBenet crumpled in the wine cellar with a garrote sunk round her neck. Iron-heavy minerals are believed to have sunk through the magma before floating to the surface in a new form of mountain. A relative of a man killed when a World War Two destroyer was sunk is to complain to the Ministry of Defence after an Orkney-based dive team removed items from the war grave. All sounds of life die out upon the earth, the last notes of the sleepy birds have sunk away, the Angelus of the church hard by has rung the close of day. Enemy planes make daylight and night attacks on port, scoring a direct hit on supply ship which blazes fiercely till next morning when it is sunk. Through the water he could see layers of other leaves that had earlier sunk to the bottom, arranging themselves in shaded and mottled patterns of burnt umber and sienna. And my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship. But how many of us, thus sunk in despair, have not been vaulted back to equilibrium by another look at Groundhog Day? We counter sunk our touch holes or used the ones that are made that way. During winter 1900-1901 Leon Estivant, the French owner of the mine, sunk a shaft and drove an adit on a fissure vein in a hill just south of the main Clark mine. By then, a Marine mindset had sunk deep in me, whereas they seemed vulnerable, and understandably so. Show More Sentences Portfolios have sunk along with the technology stocks that juiced them up. Perkins looked sunk by that memo from accounts, yet he triumphed! As I kept up a brisk pace along the battlements of the castle, I sunk into my thoughts and was so absorbed that I didn't hear the footsteps coming up behind me. My head sunk slowly into the pillow, and I began to drift asleep. One time he stood on the dock of a ship and sunk the ship just to feel what it was like to be on a sinking ship. Contact had been lost with the yacht on September 6, but sweeps of the sea failed to spot the crew or the ketch, a converted fishing boat, which is believed to have sunk. Mr. Asa's face was ruddy, his veined cheeks shiny with more than sweat, and he had a wild look to his eyes, like Pop did the time a rattler sunk fangs into his best hound. At the end of the Battle of Midway, all four Japanese carriers involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor had been sunk, while the United States lost the carrier Yorktown. That's the level to which the so-called debate from these people has sunk. The sense that historical fiction had sunk to the condition of adventure stories for boys, and romance for the millions, cast a blight on the genre in the 20th cent. Several lighter vessels and pearling luggers were sunk or wrecked. The mire into which Scottish rugby has sunk is only going to get deeper. In the middle of August, though, the Nile had sunk so low that the ships could not approach the city walls close enough for the scaling ladders to reach. It's a painfully bittersweet film, but told without any of the plodding, maudlin notes that in less sturdy hands could have sunk the entire endeavour. Cargo holds are still stocked with munition, though the weaponry sunk with the ships is still considered dangerous. And if they can break the code on even one message, we're sunk. No loaded American troop transports were sunk en route to Europe, although several empty vessels were torpedoed while returning to the United States. Despite the wettestMay since Scotland won aWorld Cup group match, water supplies around Londonshire have sunk lower than Big Brother. What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens. Over 3,000 people were lost when the converted troopship Lancastria was sunk in June 1940, the greatest maritime disaster in Britain's history. Show More Sentences Almost all of the ships were sunk except for the flagship, Royal Charles, which was taken back to the Netherlands as a trophy. The pit was then enlarged further until it became unsafe or worked out, then another pit would be sunk adjacent to the existing one. One of the last sunk post mills in England was situated at the end of Mill Lane. Wooden bridges were constructed on pilings sunk into the river, or on stone piers. The Ecrouelleux, the Inconcevables, the Merveilleux, with their chins sunk in their huge cravats. In Finland, one case involved pirates who had been captured and whose boat was sunk. After repeated Stuka attacks that day, six ships were badly damaged, four were sunk and only four reached their destination. In the first six months of 1942, 21 were lost, less than one for every 40 merchant ships sunk. In August and September, 60 were sunk, one for every 10 merchant ships, almost as many as in the previous two years. The Egyptian warship was then sunk by escorting destroyer HMS Diana, with 69 surviving Egyptian sailors rescued. New coal mines were sunk nearby to feed the furnaces and in time produced coal for export. However, many British ships escaped being sunk because of weaknesses of the Argentine pilots' bombing tactics described below. The Egyptians used the distinctive technique of sunk relief, which is well suited to very bright sunlight. The four Queensferry caissons were all sunk by the pneumatic method, and are identical in design except for differences in height. The caisson was refloated on 19 October 1885, and then moved into position and sunk with suitable modifications. As more and more coal mines were sunk the population grew to fill the jobs needed to extract the coal. I'd not've fallen in if you'd've told me it was there, Da. And I'd not've sunk if you'd've taught me how to swim. Other contamination is mostly by oil and toxic substances, but also from the great number of ships sunk during the two world wars. The estimates vary widely but it seems to be clear that more than a hundred thousand tons of munitions were sunk. The British trawler Crane was sunk, and its captain and first mate were killed. Show More Sentences Four Russian battleships and two cruisers were sunk in succession, with the fifth and last battleship being forced to scuttle a few weeks later. Vasily Vereshchagin went down with the Petropavlovsk, Admiral Makarov's flagship, when it was sunk by mines. The Imperial Navy's main ships were turned over to the Allies, but then were sunk at Scapa Flow in 1919 by German crews. This resulted in many civilian deaths, especially when passenger ships were sunk. A number of Turkish supply ships and warships were sunk but several submarines were lost. This second operation culminated in the one major Baltic action, the battle of Moon Sound at which the Russian battleship Slava was sunk. Seven men drowned when the Richard Bulkeley was sunk by a mine detonation on 12 July. By war's end, torpedoes launched from warships had sunk one battleship, two armored cruisers, and two destroyers. The remaining over 80 warships would be sunk by guns, mines, scuttling, or shipwreck. By comparison, direct aerial attacks on Axis shipping had sunk or damaged 105 vessels at a cost of 373 aircraft lost. Over half the 100 or so ships used as Sperrbrecher were sunk during the war. Ships sailing in convoys were far less likely to be sunk, even when not provided with any escort at all. The loss of productivity due to convoy delays was small compared with the loss of productivity due to ships being sunk. Maiden, Trewellard, Kenbame Head, Beaverford, and Fresno were quickly sunk, and other ships were damaged. The blockships were sunk in the wrong place and after a few days the canal was open to submarines at high tide. The block ships were in the wrong position when sunk and only managed to obstruct the canal for a few days. Six British and three French destroyers were sunk, along with nine other major vessels. Over 200 British and Allied sea craft were sunk, with a similar number damaged. Scharnhorst participated in Operation Zitronella on 8 September 1943 and was sunk at the Battle of the North Cape on 26 December. Only nine MTBs were lost to air attack out of 115 sunk by various means throughout the Second World War. Show More Sentences Only nine destroyers were sunk by air attack in 1940, out of a force of over 100 operating in British waters at the time. During the Dunkirk evacuation, few warships were actually sunk, despite being stationary targets. Walls exposed to direct cannon fire were very vulnerable, so were sunk into ditches fronted by earth slopes. Over the past few hundred years it has been believed that around 150 ships have sunk around Agulhas. The refloating of ships stranded or sunk in exposed waters is called offshore salvage. The term harbour salvage refers to the salvage of vessels stranded or sunk in sheltered waters. A few hours before sundown we camped at a small playa lake sunk beneath the level of the grass. Almost all the Genoese galleys were sunk and 1,700 fighters and sailors were killed. In this operations, it was able to save thousands of lives of survivors from vessels and aircraft sunk near the Portuguese waters. The two Allied cruisers were sunk, while a Japanese minesweeper and a transport vessel were sunk by friendly fire. By 6 July Harman's fleet had sunk, burnt or captured the majority of the French ships, 21 in all. The motor schooner Struma was torpedoed and sunk in the Black Sea by a Soviet submarine in February 1942 with the loss of nearly 800 lives. Alternatively the buck is hammered more or less flush with the structure in a counter sunk hole. The tunnel was constructed from many workfaces, with 25 shafts sunk along its course to provide access. The first shafts were sunk in the 1850s, by 1881 there were seven pits operated by the Hodbarrow Mining Company. Some of the sandstones serve as aquifers into which numerous wells and boreholes have been sunk to provide local water supplies. Although half the ships were sunk, the earnings paid the expenses of the government. Initially four permanent and three temporary shafts were sunk near to the Totley end. These adits connected with shafts that were either sunk vertically downwards or followed the line of the steeply dipping lode. For a moment he was sunk in thought, coiling and uncoiling his long spatulate fingers. Show More Sentences In the first field tests, a series of holes 2 inches in diameter and 12 feet deep were sunk with the rock-melting device, or subterrene. Part of the tinnie could be seen pushed up against the bank but otherwise it had all sunk. To her bequeath'd them with his parting breath, And sunk serene in unregretted death. I lie on my side, head sunk in the pillow, legs upfolded, as if for Indian burial. WoUND Brian is bandaged after an Akita, above, sunk teeth into his arm, right, while he held his dog Bodie, top. A HMS Encounter was sunk by the Japanese fleet in the Java Sea on March 1, 1942, along with HMS Exeter and the USS Pope. Later, at Southeastern Louisiana University, she sunk baskets to become the school's third highest scorer and rebounder. In 1942 the 1,787-ton Ravenspoint was sunk in Gibraltar harbour by a limpet mine but salvage teams soon refloated her. Anchoring 20 yards from the target, Wiggins side-armed a cast right into the target zone and the crab barely sunk a foot before the big crunch. In the past 14 years seven types of snake, including rattlesnakes and black mambas, have sunk their fangs into Tim Friede. I'M disturbed to report potty Pete Doherty sunk to yet another painful low at a solo gig in North London's Boogaloo pub last week. From where Brad had sunk his bomb, I heaved the basketball as far as I could. It was a case of the Cambridge Blues at Underhill as this particular crew were sunk by a stunning late header from Linroy Primus. Recycling toilet water to someday use as drinking water for much of Los Angeles means the city has sunk to new lows. And it looks like podgy Paul has been comfort eating since his marriage sunk like one of first week loser Toby's creations. While the European market continues to expand, Scotch is being sunk by the vatful even further afield. Sher Khan, a Pakistani mountaineer, sunk to his knees, shivering. The walkers journeyed along the Meridian Line from its first landfall on the North Sea coast at Tunstall to the banks of the Humber at Sunk Island. According to the trusty Dennis ledger, more than eighty per cent of almost 200 horses named as Bismarcks in the last two years have sunk without trace. Jiangsu Jiaolong Salvage is principally engaged in the business of salvaging sunk objects and contractor of provision of engineering services for ports and channels. Show More Sentences It was sunk by a mine during World War One and lies in 65m of water. An approximately 710 foot deep internal winze was also sunk to access four additional lower levels of the Virginius Vein and would require rehabilitation for use. Shafts may be sunk by conventional drill and blast or mechanised means. Shallow shafts, typically sunk for civil engineering projects differ greatly in execution method from deep shafts, typically sunk for mining projects. A shaft is sunk to reach the mineral which is excavated by miners, transported to the surface by a winch, and removed by means of a bucket, much like a well. During the 20th century, when many artesian wells were sunk into the periphery of the lagoon to draw water for local industry, Venice began to subside. But Kevin Pietersen remains in crisis against left-arm twirlers and faces a battle to save his Test career from being sunk by their spinners' union. After the liner Lusitania was sunk in May 1915, drowning over 100 American passengers, protests by the United States led Germany to abandon unrestricted submarine warfare. His ship became locked in the polar ice pack and drifted westward, passing within sight of Wrangel before being crushed and sunk in the vicinity of the New Siberian Islands. When the city fell during the East African Campaign, a large number of Italian and German ships were sunk in an attempt to block use of Massawa's harbor. A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force. Contrary to all other accounts, Martin du Bellay, a French cavalry officer who was present at the battle, stated that the Mary Rose had been sunk by French guns. Ships and subway cars have been deliberately sunk for that purpose. Lloyd's determined that large numbers of ships had not sunk there. To control mints in an open environment, they should be planted in deep, bottomless containers sunk in the ground, or planted above ground in tubs and barrels. Only five were sunk while evacuating Dunkirk, despite large periods of German air superiority, thousands of sorties flown, and hundreds of tons of bombs dropped. The first of these was Project B in 1921, in which the captured German World War I battleship, SMS Ostfriesland, was sunk by a flight of bombers in 22 minutes. Two were sunk in the approach channel but the third ship hit a mine just outside, which prevented it being sunk at the entrance to the inner harbour. The French Navy continued its gunfire support but the destroyers Fougueux and Chacal were damaged by the Luftwaffe and Chacal was later sunk by German artillery. The two other ships were sunk at the narrowest point of the canal. Show More Sentences Thus, all capital ships of the Russian fleet in the Pacific were sunk. A ship named Lundy Island, 3,095 tons, was captured and sunk on 10 January 1917 by the Seeadler, a windjammer under the German navy, but flying the Norwegian flag. The houses used earth sheltering, being sunk into the ground. Most of the mines in the valleys were sunk between the 1850s and 1880s, which, as a consequence, meant they were far smaller than most modern mines. Especially damaged was transportation infrastructure, as railways, bridges, and docks had been specifically targeted by airstrikes, while much merchant shipping had been sunk. Of this total, 90 were sunk and 51 damaged by Coastal Command. By 8 August 18 coal ships and 4 destroyers had been sunk, but the Navy was determined to send a convoy of 20 ships through rather than move the coal by railway. Our eyes met. Plain and simple we were having eye sex. If his eyes were a pool I could've drowned in them, sunk to the bottom never to come up for air. Sunk during World War II, it is one of the largest shipwrecks in the world that is accessible for recreational diving. A shaft was sunk into the ore and enlarged at the bottom for extraction. Norwegian merchant marine ships, often with Norwegian sailors still on board, were then sailing under the British flag and at risk of being sunk by German submarines. We paddle past the eerie spot where, in November 1944, the Tirpitz, feared sister-ship to the Bismarck, was sunk with the loss of almost 1,000 lives. At least six boats were damaged and two were sunk when a fire was sparked by a smoke bomb of the kind seen frequently in French football stadiums. The former boss of Berwick Rangers and Alloa revealed how his sides have been sunk by some last-minute sickeners in the Tennent's Scottish Cup in recent years. The best bet is McDowell, a little bulldog in matchplay who will forever be known as the hero who sunk the winning putt in the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor. Examples from Classical Literature Even as the question was asked, we heard that the Germans had sunk the Lusitania. She had sunk upon her knees, and so knelt down, moving her lips, but uttering no sound. The boat chocks are provided with gunmetal wheels, which run in transverse tracks sunk in the deck. The trench is not to be sunk deeper than two feet and a half, or shallower than one foot and a half. But it is irritating to think what diamonds, what dazzling silver of Shavian wit has been sunk in such an out-of-date warship. Before the king was come again, Hagen had taken the treasure quite and sunk it all at loche, in the Rhine. The bar is locked by means of a hasp attached to the standard in which the lock is sunk. But in the explosion the submersible herself was sunk and all on board were lost. And he sunk down at the bottom of the boat, intimating to the rest to follow his example. The night which sunk down on the sickbed of Ramorny was not doomed to be a quiet one. On November 17, 1917, during an engagement off Helgoland one German light cruiser was sunk and another damaged. His face was red and blotchy, with a network of little purple veins on the cheeks, and his features were sunk into its fatness. I fling but the helve after the hatchet that has sunk into the silent stream. When the dye has sunk in, the decolorant can be easily applied with a paint-brush. Within three days of the German pledge the Hesperian was sunk and an American citizen drowned. Unfortunately, while the de Kalb was moving slowly along she struck a torpedo, which exploded under her bow and sunk her. I was with him when he died, but knew not the hour he departed, for he sunk to rest like an infant. The German officers contended that their vessel was sunk within Chilian territorial waters. This victory Agrippa obtained at an easy rate, not more than three of his snips being sunk or destroyed. And they sunk these borings, at different spots' i' my land, and the result was splendid. Show More Sentences If it had not been for this, Mrs. brattle would, I think, have sunk under the load. But he has never sunk the contempt, and the contempt saves him from any general practice of miscegenation. It had sunk into the heavy slumber of weariness, the soundness of peasants' sleep. Is it not most pitiful to see a human being, made in the image of God, sunk so low? She had drawn a shawl over her head and was sunk in the apathy of despair or drink. With sunk seat for squab cushion, turned uprights and legs and curious back, showing transition from lath back to splat back. A French merchantman had, contrary to rule, also been sunk there by the Dresden, within Chilian territorial waters. In this the graves and sarcophagi are sunk in the floor as well as in the walls. He was suffering from mortification, which is a sort of ingrowing anger, and the more it sunk in, the angrier he got. I sunk to the ground, and my injurer, with increased swiftness, escaped into the wood. Her eyes were sunk into her head by weeping, and her face was a living picture of grief. Perhaps the stinging words of last night had at last sunk deep enough to scarify his self-esteem. In the deep channel between, or under cover of these batteries, several ranges of chevaux-de-frise had been sunk. At that chillest, most awful moment of all the circle of time, Mrs. Forrester had sunk into half-unconsciousness. Deep sunk in a subtropical valley, the irrigable alluvial land of Abancay tempts the production of sugar. Some, in their panic, leaped out into the shallow water and sunk in the mire. He, with his eyes fixed on the embers, had sunk back into the dolorous past. The parapets were raised, extra traverses erected, and the terreplein sunk. To Plato the whole world appears to be sunk in error, based on self-interest. The terreplein of each of these works was sunk, so that the loopholes were within one foot and a half of the level of the ditch. Show More Sentences She found her at last, in her hiding-place behind the bed, sunk in deep dejection. My brother's ship was sunk, no one knows where, on the voyage home from Tasmania. He used to walk frequently on the moss where the laird Fisher sunk his shaft. Under the dribble of the mucilage the fire in his eyes had flickered and sunk. I feel a great deal better than if I had sunk thirty or forty thousand dollars in a dry hole. They watched him oil a turncock sunk in the ground between two furze-bushes. Nations, time and again, have felt the dire effects of effemination and have sunk beneath them. When he let go, the latter had already sunk into the skin, and nothing was to be seen but a cicatrix well healed over. He paced the floor for an hour or two, sunk in thought, and then unlocked a desk drawer and took out his bankbook. Grendon snapped out of the lethargy into which he had sunk, face drawn and gray. It's a tank town with a community of seven hundred of the tightest wads that ever sunk a dollar into the toe of a sock. Specially worthy of note also are the finger rings with the designs sunk into the oval surface of the bezel. This basket is carried out into the tules that adjoin the lakes, and sunk to the depth of two or three feet. A T square, with a blade 24 inches long attached permanently to the stock, but not sunk into it. The stuff was spongy and sticky and clingy, and he had now sunk deep into it up to his stomach. Maurice let the maulstick drop against his shoulder and sunk his head on his hands. So life here too far retired, too deeply sunk to struggle back and vitalise again that hue, those lips, that masklike effigy. The Nile has sunk away from the feet of the colossi that it has bathed through many days. Only fleetingly visible for a while, she finally seemed to have sunk into the earth. In the centre two shafts are being sunk to the 150 foot level, and are at present connected by a drive 300 feet long. Show More Sentences While Miss Milner, without uttering one word, sunk speechless on the floor. He looks upon me as a sort of fund that has to be placed or sunk or something, somewhere. From fireplace to console table Mignon paced, sunk in thought yet still unconquered by circumstances. He was but a gazer, entirely concentrated in watchfulness, sunk as it were in searching. You will doubtless remember me who was with you that time at Maracaibo, when you sunk the galleasses. It is not an easy matter to decide just where the countermine should be sunk or how far to go. The archegonia are protected by being sunk in depressions of the disk or by a special two-lipped involucre. As one merchantman after another was sunk there could no longer be any doubt about it. Thus, the paddle steamer Mercury, while sweeping off the Sunk, brought up three mines and their sinkers in this way. The coloured population of Angola are sunk in the grossest superstition. In the afternoon we sunk the Ayesha and we were all very sad. John, meanwhile, sat collapsed, his chin sunk upon his chest, his mind in abeyance. The former owners had carefully replaced the wood in the water wheel, but it had sunk into the wheel pit, and its bearings were broken. In a few more the mountains of Cape Breton sunk behind the wave. He sprang out of bed, but his quaking knees sunk under him and he fell to the floor. He must circumnavigate the vessel or the vortex if she were sunk. Then was a country torn by a civil war, sunk in poverty, in distress. Shimerda rose, crossed himself, and quietly knelt down before the tree, his head sunk forward. On the morning of the ninth day, Peggy sunk into a deathlike stupor. Meantime the body had decayed and had sunk down into a handful of dust. Show More Sentences The deputation stood and watched him until he had sunk under the hill. He had sunk down on the snow in the circle of his blood and was plainly in the last gasp. As a result of the attack on Dunkirk one French destroyer was sunk. He felt himself fairly sunk in the pit he had digged for another. And Simon again sunk into his own dim and disconnected reveries. Find more words! 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