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    sunk


    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 "sunk"

    done for ruined sunk undone washed-up

    "sunk" definitions

    doomed to extinction