SINK in a Sentence

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221 example sentences for SINK, such as:

1. Many sands will sink a ship.
2. I refuse to sink to their level.
3. The boat will sink unless we bail out.
4. The sink overflowed and swamped the kitchen.
5. Their motorboat struck a rock and began to sink.

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 Meanings and Examples of SINK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sink
 v.  fall by, force of gravity; descend lower; decline gradually; enter deeply
Classic Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
1  She let her lids sink slowly, in the way he loved.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  And ever so often one Indian would go back to her and sink his tommyhawk into her skull again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  She wanted to run to the bed, sink down beside it and clasp him to her but her knees trembled so that she could not enter the room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  Even as Ashley's voice then had turned her cold with dread of things she could not understand, so now Rhett's voice made her heart sink.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
5  Meanwhile he cast agonized glances in the direction of Miss Bart, whose only response was to sink into an attitude of more graceful abstraction.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
6  She took this in what seemed the only possible way, with a laugh intended to sink the question itself in his humorous treatment of it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
7  She made the statement clearly, deliberately, with pauses between the sentences, so that each should have time to sink deeply into her hearer's mind.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
8  The baby, feeling herself detached from her habitual anchorage, made an instinctive motion of resistance; but the soothing influences of digestion prevailed, and Lily felt the soft weight sink trustfully against her breast.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
9  And there ain't any water except that ole iron sink outside in the hall, but still, as I say to Champ, beggars can't be choosers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  His coat off, his sleeves rolled up, he was scrubbing his hands in a tin basin in the sink, using the bar of yellow kitchen soap.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  She was the more absurd to herself in that, after the rite of dining alone, she could go out to the kitchen, lean against the sink, and talk to them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  The lines are broken and uncertain of direction; often instead of rising they sink in wavering scrawls; and the colors are watery blue and pink and the dim gray of rubbed pencil marks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
13  Look your last, now, on these venerable hooded heads, while they yet lie together; for one will soon sink, unrecorded, in the sea; the other will not be very long in following.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
14  But a sudden stop was put to further discoveries, by the ship's being unprecedentedly dragged over sideways to the sea, owing to the body's immensely increasing tendency to sink.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
15  Two girls were washing dishes at the sink, laughing and chattering, and a little one, in a short pinafore, sat on a stool playing with a rag baby.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  The store had everything including the proverbial kitchen sink.
17  They used bleach to kill any germs in the sink and drain.
18  He's only staying three days, but he arrived with everything but the kitchen sink.
19  The sink overflowed and swamped the kitchen.
20  I refuse to sink to their level.
21  Many sands will sink a ship.
22  You'll need a strong abrasive for cleaning this sink.
23  Their motorboat struck a rock and began to sink.
24  The sink shelf is grooved so that the water will run off.
25  The earthquake made the wall sink and start to crumble.
26  The main drawback is that the lawn could sink as the old turf rots, so you need to build it up a little higher than you might otherwise, to allow for shrinkage.
27  The steady dripping of water will rust the metal stopper of the sink in one year.
28  They both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.
29  The boat will sink unless we bail out.
30  A feather floats about on the air, especially on a windy day. If there is a shower of rain, the feather will get wet and heavy with water, and then it will sink straight to the ground.