sunk
IPA: sˈʌŋk
adjective
- doomed to extinction
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Examples of "sunk" in Sentences
- Palin sunk John McCain's ship and she will do the same for the GOP.
- The satisfied torpor in which they are sunk is the deadly inertia that precedes dissolution.
- Lovelace sat down on a chair, straddle-wise, his arms over the back, and his chin sunk in his hands.
- She has sunk from the comforts she was born to; and, if she live to old age, must probably sink more.
- She is poor; she has sunk from the comforts she was born to; and, if she live to old age, must probably sink more.
- Even before his marriage, Lionel was made Earl of Ulster, a title sunk after 1362 in the novel dignity of the duchy of Clarence.
- Yet the little man was plainly unhappy, and fell to pacing to and fro, his chin sunk low on his breast, and his hands clasped behind his back.
- Knightley proceeds to enumerate Miss Bates's misfortunes: She is poor; she has sunk from the comforts she was born to; and, if she live to old age, must probably sink more.
- To any one who sees me from without, I am only a dirt-eating worm, a grub in the ground, but I know that above this dark earth-place in which I am sunk is the green grass – and beyond the green grass, the sun and sky.
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