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    1. ” His already heavy heart sank even further


    2. perused the by now predictable menu his heart sank in converse proportion to the


    3. The wolf sank onto all fours, straddling the girl, nuzzling at her breasts and her


    4. Suddenly, Leonora felt the need for sleep come over her, and she sank down onto the couch and passed out even before her head hit the pillow


    5. She yelped and sank to the bench seat over the pumps for a couple bounces


    6. As the boy sat at table and ordered half a litre of the house red while he perused the by now predictable menu his heart sank in converse proportion to the rising pulse in the veins of the aforementioned lady


    7. After the soldier sank to his death, all was quiet


    8. I tried to cool my feet by walking in the water but they just sank there too, leaving whirlpools of water in my struggle to get back


    9. The poor little rich girl sank to her knees and begged her father for forgiveness


    10. My aunt bore it all as best she could but in the moment she dropped some soil onto the lid, she sank to her knees beside the shallow grave and buried her face in her hands, trembling and shaking, overwhelmed with grief

    11. “She’s feeling abandoned,” Alan sighed as they sank into the stand-cushions


    12. My heart sank


    13. The great politician shuddered and sank back into his bench seat


    14. Kelvin sank back down to the couch


    15. not to be like the boy who loved his shoes so much that he sank


    16. Being a woman there was nothing she could do and so she felt betrayed and sank into a deeply depressed state


    17. Getting to know her (once I had nagged Jane into introducing me) merely underlined her numerous qualities and sank me deeper in the mire


    18. shuddered and sank back into his bench seat


    19. “Out of the mouths of babes,” she sighed and sank into the sofa


    20. He sighed and sank back into the sofa and snuggled against her shoulder

    21. Joseph shook his head and sank back in the chair


    22. Idly, she picked up a stone and tried to skim it … it sank … but she didn’t care


    23. Kulai’s eyes sank


    24. Tom’s boots sank into the marshy


    25. She put down the pocket-eye and sank into the cushion


    26. heart sank as he recognised the garb of a Cardinal, and he


    27. He sank to a rock and just gaped


    28. His heart sank even further as he entered the main hallway


    29. Valla also climbed over the fence, and they both sank to the ground to rest


    30. Their teeth sank into each other’s necks repeatedly, and though it looked as

    31. sank into the proffered chair, unable to take her eyes off


    32. He spent a while just swimming there, or was it just in Desa? He watched the party as a movie and sank deeper and deeper within it, until he really WAS in this ancient building in some alien civilization at an extra-terrestrial party


    33. They sank rapidly


    34. sank below the welcoming waters without a trace


    35. exact moment when I broke through the ice and sank up


    36. sank even lower as he considered the prospect of the long


    37. "Put it down! Down, this instant, Watson--this instant, I say!" His head sank back upon the pillow and he gave a deep sigh of relief as I replaced the box upon the mantelpiece


    38. Jean seemed to suffer the most as he sank into a


    39. face were numb with cold, and he sank up to his knees in


    40. The two of them stood in compatible silence for a while as the sun sank slowly behind the trees

    41. Their bodies wreathed in steam they sank into the moist grass below


    42. The blue sun sank quickly, abandoning them to darkness


    43. They reached a spacious elevator hall and sank many more shafts than he thought they should have


    44. Their shoulders sank as they made their way to Brontes and Adros


    45. Nerissa’s mood sank even lower as the door slammed shut behind her


    46. I sank my fingers into the colorful array once more


    47. “Yes,” he said, and I sank into the seat like a boneless mammal


    48. means that I had sank long ago


    49. He couldn’t see the writing before it sank beneath a wave


    50. They never learned its fate, but likely, it sank in a storm












































    1. Herndon slid into the seats on the side with the sink


    2. As soon as we left, Millie hid under the bathroom sink with a flashlight, waiting for the mermaids


    3. Enough room to get to the head, the sink and the bunk


    4. ‘Okay …’ Stephen said, taking his plate over to the sink, his thoughts obviously elsewhere


    5. Johnny pushed back his chair and headed for the sink with his bowl


    6. How much have you had?’ he said, placing the bottle out of my reach before taking the kettle over to the sink and filling it with water


    7. He looks at John a beat to let that sink in


    8. Calmly collecting up the plates he carried them over to the sink before replying


    9. He thrashes feebly in the water, begins to sink


    10. He swallows water, chokes, tries to reach the surface, but he finally gives up, begins to sink rapidly

    11. They never had to sink into decrepit old age


    12. Another tight, fake smile as he lets this compliment sink in, gazes out at the gawking expressions below him


    13. kitchen door, put both his and Billie’s cups in the sink, and proceeded to open the


    14. He lets that information sink in, studies John’s face


    15. Inside, the goon was seated, resting his fat elbows on the counter and preparing to sink his teeth into a sloppy breakfast roll


    16. Hamo waits for all that to sink in


    17. He lets that information sink in


    18. He lets that sink in, sits back, crosses his arms, looks John in the eyes


    19. For ten seconds or so, Tig tried to let it sink in, but it wouldn't


    20. I hold the tureens as he strains the veg over the sink and then carry them through to the lounge as we fill them

    21. ’ She said as I spring over to the sink and get her what she wants


    22. I brushed my teeth with a flattened toothbrush that sat in a mug on an old sink


    23. I tore off one square of toilet paper, folded it, and then wedged it underneath the sink


    24. Although I waited with baited breath every morning, there were only two further occasions when I found a note stuffed under the sink


    25. After he had driven his black beauty of a car out onto the lane and closed the back gate, she took a tin of something fishy out of the under sink cupboard , sat down in one of her rickety old kitchen chairs, the one next to the gently warming range, and poured herself a thick measure of her favourite Scotch


    26. She’d been amazed by the overabundance of cleaning materials that she had correctly guessed would be stored in the cupboard under the sink – some things defy cultural differences! Kneeling on the floor, all the better to examine the various spray containers and bottles piled in there, her amazement turned into confusion … there were plastic spray bottles for limescale removal, disinfecting the worktops … apparently killing 99% of all known germs - though that did raise the question of what danger the remaining 1% presented if it was so vital to get rid of the things … bottles of cream for cleaning the sink and another, lavender scented, for polishing wood, a big bottle of bleach that at least smelt familiar, and noxious substances for cleaning the oven that had signs warning of danger plastered all over them … it was an education


    27. the cracked CD cases, the stubble in the sink


    28. overwhelming the sink brown earth


    29. After a bit of sputtering and spewing water finally came out of the sink


    30. She went to the sink and washed her hands and noticed the coke on the counter

    31. and craters, watching their own blood sink down


    32. knees, and sink into the kneeling position I have demonstrated


    33. In the sink a collection of half drained,


    34. hitting the stairs, kitchen sink,


    35. Then sink slowly into the Corpse Posture, close your eyes and try to empty your mind of all thoughts but one pleasant one


    36. Driving ahead they would speak to me hoping a word or phrase would sink in so I could grasp what was really going on


    37. ‘There is a hole in the hull, the barge will sink – you need to get all your belongings and swim for it


    38. As he entered the kitchen he saw Kate bending over the sink


    39. ” Tarak paused to allow this to sink in, Duncan’s eyes went wide and his brow furrowed


    40. As he fills the kettle at the sink, I sit with my chin in my hands, watching him, seeing him as a man with a woman’s eyes

    41. and immediately started to sink


    42. vanished, and he began to sink, because the universe


    43. ‘Come on Sally, tell all!’ she said as Sally, her face quite as red as the paintwork in my kitchen, tries to pretend she is busy doing something in the sink


    44. Weaving a little as I go, I dump the plate and wine glass in the kitchen sink and decide to go to bed


    45. He leaned against the sink for a moment, thinking


    46. I help Chris carry the mugs over to the sink where she starts to wash up


    47. She grabbed a glass from the sink and swung it as if to break it against my head


    48. Instead she slammed it into the sink where it shattered


    49. She opened it without knocking, stepped inside and stopped by the sink


    50. She stood shivering by the sink, and staring at me as if I were an alien














































    1. Tiny Robot Archimedes was unable to make calculations about the water's movement while he was sinking, though he did record the mating patterns of several kinds of fish


    2. It was like sinking into a flashing mist


    3. I could feel my heart sinking at the bitterness of final separation, but there was nothing else I could do


    4. Son was now waist deep in quicksand and sinking


    5. sinking in fits and starts down the outside of the bowl,


    6. as a result of the sinking


    7. the sinking of knees, the resting of elbows on hard,


    8. with a sinking tremor


    9. Naked, I tried to look confident but plodding along the shoreline sinking into sand was like waddling along a tight rope without any sense of balance


    10. The sun is sinking towards the horizon before we come in sight of the township where Berndt intends us to spend the night

    11. We must have hit another of those fallen trees … the first time had me in a flat panic believing the vessel was sinking! Boy, had I felt a fool!


    12. Underfoot, bits of rock crumbled and splashed into the water, sinking past fishes in the swaying seaweed to the greenness down beyond


    13. By the time that he did make the connection he was sinking to the floor and losing consciousness, his head and shoulders wrapped in an old bath towel that his step-mother had thrown over his head as she struck to soak up the inevitable streams of blood


    14. It is wonderful sinking back into the car seat as Alastair drives off


    15. time that he did make the connection he was sinking to the floor


    16. saw a small boat, sinking down into the water


    17. Once he did call in they would probably want to keep him talking just about constantly, what would he do then? With a sinking feeling he realized that the situation wasn’t going to respond to wishful thinking


    18. Joe began to scoot, sinking his fingers into the snow-covered ground,


    19. ’ There was a sinking feeling in


    20. This incident was leaving a sinking feeling in her guts

    21. anxious about his boat sinking under the combined weight


    22. I had a sinking feeling in the pit of my


    23. " And she put him in the sledge beside her, wrapped the fur round him, and he felt as though he were sinking in a bank of fresh white snow


    24. The effect of such regulations, however, is not near so durable in sinking the workman's wages below, as in raising them above their natural rate


    25. It was with a sinking heart that I reentered Holmes's bedroom


    26. It was slanted but it was not sinking lower


    27. Desperate, she gathered more power, increasing the force of her efforts, sinking her energy deeper into Whimly's twisted soul


    28. Diminish the real opulence either of Holland or of the territory of Genoa, while the number of their inhabitants remains the same ; diminish their power of supplying themselves from distant countries; and the price of corn, instead of sinking with that diminution in the quantity of their silver, which must necessarily accompany this declension, either as its cause or as its effect, will rise to the price of a famine


    29. She fell to the blackened earth, her long fingers sinking into the blood drenched soil


    30. The fact that his entire memory, all his most private experiences, had been distributed like a cheap rental movie was still sinking in

    31. The opinion, therefore, that silver is continually sinking in its value, seems not to be founded upon any good observations, either upon the prices of corn, or upon those of other provisions


    32. ; of the capital which the undertaker of a mine employs in sinking his shafts, in erecting engines for drawing out the water, in making roads and waggon-ways, etc


    33. I watched them plummet with a sinking heart


    34. It began to fold into my physical self by plying my skin and sinking through my pores, nourishing its hunger on my soul


    35. nothing to be found at the place of the sinking


    36. I burst forth as a panther, sinking my teeth into the Arch demon's feet and dragging until he fell backwards


    37. In Europe, for example, it is supposed, without much foundation, perhaps, that during the course of the present and preceding century, they have been constantly, but gradually, sinking in their value, on account of the continual importations from the Spanish West Indies


    38. in the pound land-tax, and what was annually borrowed of the sinking fund


    39. To dream that you are sinking in quicksand indicates feelings of insecurity


    40. But he could not fully dispel the nagging, sinking feeling

    41. Eventually, the crowd stopped growing and a sinking realization swept over me


    42. It amounted to more than ninety millions sterling, including not only the new debt which was contracted, but the two shillings in the pound additional land tax, and the sums which were every year borrowed from the sinking fund


    43. This policy, therefore, discourages agriculture in two different ways; first, by sinking the real value of its produce, and thereby lowering the rate of its profits; and, secondly, by raising the rate of profit in all other employments


    44. So great a revenue might certainly have afforded an augmentation of £680,000 in their annual payments ; and, at the same time, have left a large sinking fund, sufficient for the speedy reduction of their debt


    45. Kevin took a deep breath, looked at her for a moment and said, “We’re sinking aren’t we?”


    46. The ordinary revenue of Great Britain, for example, including not only what is necessary for defraying the current expense of the year, but for paying the interest of the public debts, and for sinking a part of the capital of those debts, amounts to upwards of ten millions a-year


    47. Had any considerable alteration been made in the standard of the money, either by sinking the same quantity of silver to a lower denomination, or by raising it to a higher ; had an ounce of silver, for example, instead of being coined into five shillings and two pence, been coined either into pieces which bore so low a denomination as two shillings and seven pence, or into pieces which bore so high a one as ten shillings and four pence, it would, in the one case, have hurt the revenue of the proprietor, in the other that of the sovereign


    48. This saving left a considerable surplus in the produce of the different taxes which had been accumulated into those funds, over and above what was necessary for paying the annuities which were now charged upon them, and laid the foundation of what has since been called the sinking fund


    49. , which reductions still further augmented the sinking fund


    50. A sinking fund, though instituted for the payment of old, facilitates very much the contracting of new debts












































    1. His heart sinks as he hears the firework whistle off into the sky


    2. He walks over, lines up his stick on the cue ball, expertly sinks a shot


    3. As he sinks, John sees millions of tropical fish below him and a gorgeous reef of pink and blue coral


    4. Not knowing what else to do, Apollo sinks into his bed


    5. He sinks to his knees, waterlogged,


    6. The sun sinks further towards the horizon


    7. No matter how hard your reason tries to tell you something's wrong, it only ever really sinks in when the problem gets in the way of something important"


    8. For a moment, I think I’ve misheard her … then it sinks into my head what she just said


    9. 18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in;


    10. And then the tense used by the police officer sinks home

    11. In Billy’s field of vision, in the image of the world that he carries with him as he sinks onto his knees by the mortuary door, Leona waves to him from the trolley and starts to tap her left foot in time to the beat of the music that is thumping through his throbbing temples


    12. Her head sinks into the pillow


    13. perfect enough to avoid abuse, and thus the child's self-worth sinks to unbearable levels


    14. It sinks the price of coloured silks and cloths, and thereby reduces the profits of the merchants who have any considerable quantity of them upon hand


    15. It sinks, too, the wages of the workmen employed in preparing such commodities, for which all demand is stopped for six months, perhaps for a twelvemonth


    16. It is because the demand for labour increases in years of sudden and extraordinary plenty, and diminishes in those of sudden and extraordinary scarcity, that the money price of labour sometimes rises in the one, and sinks in the other


    17. Accordingly, therefore, as the usual market rate of interest varies in any country, we may be assured that the ordinary profits of stock must vary with it, must sink as it sinks, and rise as it rises


    18. He sinks closer to the surface of the planet


    19. When we are in want of necessaries, we must part with all superfluities, of which the value, as it rises in times of opulence and prosperity, so it sinks in times of poverty and distress


    20. Their real price, the quantity of labour which they can purchase or command, rises in times of poverty and distress, and sinks in times of opulence and prosperity, which are always times of great abundance ; for they could not otherwise be times of opulence and prosperity

    21. "Well the extra heat warms up this planet, melts the poles and sinks half of the continents


    22. But in all cases in which the real price of the rude material either does not rise at all, or does not rise very much, that of the manufactured commodity sinks very considerably


    23. Their competition raises the wages of labour, and sinks the profits of stock


    24. I'm scared,” he sinks under the comforter


    25. But if this money sinks in its value, in the quantity of labour, provisions, and home-made commodities of all different kinds which it is capable of purchasing, as much as it rises in its quantity, the service will be little more than nominal and imaginary


    26. her heart sinks


    27. First, by raising the price of all foreign goods, and of all sorts of manufactures, it necessarily sinks the real value of the surplus produce of its own land, with which, or, what comes to the same thing, with the price of which, it purchases those foreign goods and manufactures


    28. ‘When the reality of this sinks in I don’t think I will be so calm


    29. I wondered whether I had inflicted them on Jazzy, had scrubbed the bathroom sinks with a little too much vigor


    30. “Right Billy Boy lets get out of here there’s nothing to keep us here now”, so we did faster than a Scotsman sinks a free drink

    31. Colling was amazed that the German had accurately estimated the space necessary to accommodate the ice cream freezer, refrigerator, sinks and other pieces of fountain equipment


    32. He looked at himself in the mirror over one of the sinks, and silently hoped that his appearance would match the photo in his new forged passport


    33. Let´s think on a15 meters long beast with large jaws and sharp teeth that dies and sinks to the bottom of the Tethys Sea in the territories that many years later would integrate Egypt


    34. Peter sinks to his knees


    35. I STAND BEFORE the sinks in the women’s bathroom on the newly claimed Dauntless floor, a gun resting on my palm


    36. Caleb sinks back against the countertop edge, touching the back of his head to the metal cabinets


    37. He sinks back into the couch


    38. Anger might seem to be appropriate at times, but if a parent sinks into a continuing pattern of resentment and negativity toward a child's lack of compliance, it could cause real damage to the child's self-concept and well being


    39. Both my machetes slice through different attackers, and Anup sinks his canines into one after the other


    40. counter that held two standard sized sinks

    41. I hung about the urinals and sinks, trying to decide if I should try or not, until one of the security guards came in


    42. Earlier it was not like this, he can swear it, but as the light sinks over the ravaged woods, he knows it is changed


    43. With a heart that sinks


    44. 1975 (November 10) The cargo carrier Edmund Fitzgerald sinks on Lake Superior


    45. Waterline: point to where a ship sinks in the water loaded and unloaded


    46. The knife sinks into me all at once, and I can’t stop myself


    47. After a few moments, as this sinks in, not only do they agree with me, it never comes up again


    48. soon as the thought impulse has worked itself out, it sinks back into the


    49. The medical team rushed to the sinks and threw handful after handful of water into their own faces


    50. The husk of your past form sinks beneath the amber as it liquefies into syrup again












































    1. His once-growling face had smoothed and his eyes sunk


    2. Vald's blade sunk below the wall and into the earth, creating a rift in the earth


    3. Onidas sunk to his knees, peering over the gorge Vald had carved out with his blade and was now bleeding into


    4. Peter screamed as the rabbit sunk his teeth into his skull


    5. The one safe haven in my life was sunk beneath


    6. embraced his father, told him he loved him, and then sunk his mouth to the old man’s


    7. looking exactly as she had done in the days before the fevers sunk her cheeks and


    8. The boy child had, when the time came, embraced his father, told him he loved him, and then sunk his mouth to the old man’s neck to taste the acrid, metallic taste of heaven for the first time


    9. They skirted round a collection of rocks half sunk in the sand, keeping the sun on their left


    10. ‘That hasn’t really sunk in yet, Angie … it’s almost as if I don’t dare believe it

    11. He looked up at that damned moon and saw that his wife sat there, in a little crater all of her own, looking exactly as she had done in the days before the fevers sunk her cheeks and turned her into an old crone before her time


    12. As the night wore on and his fear grew he sunk deeper and deeper into the stupidity of the whole adventure


    13. I pulled back, unable to shut my ears as the horror of what she said sunk in


    14. "I chased down all the sightings of our possible spy," she said as she sunk into his guest chair at one percent gee


    15. On those occasions when the music filtered through the vapours that she drew around herself, she sunk her long, splintered fingernails into the woodchip wallpaper, ripping huge tears in the outer fabric of her bedroom walls


    16. filtered through the vapours that she drew around herself, she sunk


    17. Ships frequently sunk,


    18. tracks sunk into a deep cutting, with heavily overgrown banks on


    19. craft and sunk at least half of them


    20. “About as long as these trunks have sunk root here,” he said while looking around

    21. sunk half-way into the ground


    22. Large round timbers were sunk in the ground around a covered hole, and heavy boards attached to the house, boxed in the space above the ground, nearly as tall as himself


    23. ‘I don’t believe even Chas would have sunk that low!’


    24. He lost most of his shoulders and his chest had sunk to his belly


    25. These four timbers,” he pointed, “will be sunk in holes here,” and he walked over to the levee break and indicated a place with his boot, then stepped to the next, “here, here, and here


    26. She might be from there herself, if so, he was sunk


    27. " A truer, truth he couldn't have spoken, the words sunk deep in her heart


    28. If it even exists, she thought to herself, as her hopes sunk


    29. Remembering dare was the wrong word to use, and she sunk back into the chair and rephrased her question


    30. He looked like warmed over death, his eyes were sunk deep into his unshaven face, and his hair matted to his head

    31. Holmes's voice had sunk to an almost inaudible whisper


    32. The media had thankfully sunk into a state of torpor, when the news came of a noisy group of belligerent teenagers having a sit-in inside the local Television Station


    33. The low price at which this corn was distributed to the people, must necessarily have sunk the price of what could be brought to the Roman market from Latium, or the ancient territory of Rome, and must have discouraged its cultivation in that country


    34. Yes it was, it had sunk right down and with the extra weight of three boys it had dug in as well


    35. From about the middle of the fourteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth century, what was reckoned the reasonable and moderate, that is, the ordinary or average price of wheat, seems to have sunk gradually to about one half of this price; so as at last to have fallen to about two ounces of silver, Tower weight, equal to about ten shillings of our present money


    36. Silver sunk in its real value, or would exchange for a smaller quantity of labour than before; and corn rose in its nominal price, and, instead of being commonly sold for about two ounces of silver the quarter, or about ten shillings of our present money, came to be sold for six and eight ounces of silver the quarter, or about thirty and forty shillings of our present money


    37. The greater part of Europe was, during this period, advancing in industry and improvement, and the demand for silver must consequently have been increasing; but the increase of the supply had, it seems, so far exceeded that of the demand, that the value of that metal sunk considerably


    38. - Between 1630 and 1640, or about 1636, the effect of the discovery of the mines of America, in reducing the value of silver, appears to have been completed, and the value of that metal seems never to have sunk lower in proportion to that of corn than it was about that time


    39. Both metals sunk in their real value, or in the quantity of labour which they could purchase; but silver sunk more than gold


    40. For a captain, swimming means your ship’s been sunk

    41. A pair of daggers sunk into her empty eye sockets


    42. Mastecus sunk his hands into the Makii’s body and sent his energy out – rupturing his every last internal organ


    43. Its sound was almost identical to an axehead sunk into soft wood


    44. The Queen simply extended her head down and sunk her teeth into his chest


    45. Its paper currency, accordingly, is said never to have sunk below the value of the gold and silver which was current in the colony before the first emission of its paper money


    46. It has since that time, in different countries, sunk to six, five, four, and three per cent


    47. Let us suppose, that in every particular country the value of silver has sunk precisely in the same proportion as the rate of interest; and that in those countries, for example, where interest has been reduced from ten to five per cent


    48. As interest sunk to six, five, and four per cent


    49. The towns were deserted, and the country was left uncultivated; and the western provinces of Europe, which had enjoyed a considerable degree of opulence under the Roman empire, sunk into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism


    50. Still, she did not prevail upon the good-natured driver and hopped off the cart as the sun sunk below the horizon at last














































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    Synonyms for "sink"

    cesspit cesspool sink sump sinkhole swallow hole fall off slump bury subside lapse pass drop drop down slide down go down go under settle dip submerge immerse soak swamp scuttle depress basin tub bowl sewer fall descend decline lower droop

    "sink" definitions

    plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe


    (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system


    a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof


    a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it


    fall or descend to a lower place or level


    cause to sink


    pass into a specified state or condition


    go under


    descend into or as if into some soft substance or place


    appear to move downward


    fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly


    fall or sink heavily


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