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How to use drown in a sentence

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He still has 60 acres of winter corn under water, a lot of which will drown out and have to be re-sown.
Stay too long and you inevitably drown in a quicksand of disappointment, seedy nostalgia and self-deception.
This Opera comes with a heavy bassline, a raucous bellow that would drown the loudest baritone.
In back, half the kids sing along with the radio raucously, and the other half start shouting to drown them out.
Prevented from surfacing to breathe, the sea mammals drown while their skin is lacerated by the spines of writhing fish.
In his most remarkable feat, he constructs a low-lying town in a dry lakebed only to drown it for a spectacular inundation.
The people were inside and the radio was turned up loud to drown out the din of the men yelling and laughing as they drank coffee and beer.
I ordered a bottle of the house Frascati to drown our sorrows and a garlic bread pizza to share.
Be considerate of the fact that Wellington's climate may make them want to drown themselves in a very warm bathtub right about now.
Soft, fluid fabrics will flatter your curves, but avoid frills and garish prints, as these will drown you.
I mean, it's not like a guy who wanted to murder and drown his wife on record can be said to take it easy on ex-partners.
She felt bad about giving them something they didn't want, but she wasn't just going to let them drown the kitten.
The only strong caveat involves a startling scene early in the film in which Charlie is forced by his father to drown a helpless dog.
They all looked really sad, like they had to go home and drown some puppies in the bathtub.
A continuing gradual dehydration of the Earth's mantle may by then have begun to drown the ridges and to flood the surface of the planet.
You shouldn't drown your sorrows in French wines at the prospect of feeling European.
Everyone was trying to drown their sorrows in whisky, vodka, or tequila, but everybody remained sober no matter how much they drank.
She had to get back to her room, she had to forget the past, she had to drown her sorrows in alcohol.
The music, the agency conjectured, might drown out crucial security announcements on the P.A. system.
When nighttime outdoor lights send glare up and out instead of down, they don't just waste energy, they drown out the sky, too.
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Tremolos and chromatics descend upon the orchestra like a storm of hail and rain that almost drown the singers' voices.
You threatened to drown Tony, and if your boat had not got aground you would have run him down.
I have begun to write to you before now, but always stuck somehow, and left it to drown in a drawerful of like fiascos.
That was why she had made such a noise about it, in order to drown these words.
From time to time waves of sand are borne over, and drown the narrow fields of durra and of barley.
I have sometimes sought to drown care in the river, whither I go with gillie Bareshanks to fly-fish for trouts.
The canvas is rather a logy, limp sort of craft, to my thinking, and liable to drown her crew if swamped.
But if they were bad people they could perfectly well rob me and drown me in the Irtysh.
But he did not drown, for a triton came his way who took him along with him to the dragon-castle.
He can drown down the voice of missionaries, and they are halting in reproval.
As to strong beer, there's enough of it in the cellars already, to drown the Manor House.
But are you voluble enough to drown all sense in a torrent of words?
Were we to drown the world with them, could the world blame us?
In it we will drown our adversities, and in its fire consume our sorrows.
I sink you Bose drown last night, but you have bonne fortune and escape.
The pool under Sandford lasher, just behind the lock, is a very good place to drown yourself in.
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
The day after we had drunk together to drown our quarrels, I left home because I had business at Bastia.
Hear I the roaring streams from Pirohitee's peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the villages?
If the awful Three found no proof, ten to one they would drown him anyhow, because he was a deep rascal, since his plots were unsolvable.
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