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Sentence Examples The reef mines sank far underground, and used expensive machinery and complex metallurgical processes to separate the gold from the waste rock. She sank onto the camp bed, pleased to find the mattress in acceptable condition. One spring when he was hauling some logs, his wagon wheels sank down to the axles in mud. The order was given to abandon ship, and she broke in two and sank shortly after. In that case a vessel sank through the negligence of her owners in the River Dee obstructing navigation. Eight people drowned when the Easy Rider was hit by a rogue wave and sank during a muttonbirding trip to the Titi Islands. Sent to capture the Bounty mutineers, Pandora sank in 1791, intact, in deep water after striking the Barrier Reef. His stomach sank into his feet and he slid down the smooth wall until seated on the grass. Under his leadership, the Tory Party sank to unfathomed levels of unpopularity and contempt. In the aftermath of her death, he sank into an all-time low as he mourned his lifelong friend. Jesse's face softened but his heart stood still as the last of her words sank in. The words his father spoke sank in and he realized how close he'd come to being murdered. Scott was in the same bunker and got out and sank a good putt for a birdie. Clarkie sank a ball and snookered Dave but this just made him play with more determination. She was immediately set upon by his faithful setter, who sank fangs deep into the vampire's throat and almost severed her head from her body. I screamed my rage at God for letting it happen and then sank into a depression that Sam was gone. The rattle of its hooves was the last thing Hoss heard as he sank into unconsciousness. But as Marisa sank into a depression, Sandra picked up and changed her life. Temporarily disoriented and without any immediate answers, on the way toward recovery, she sank into depression. He checked the hotch-potch of crumpled notes in his jacket pocket and sank into a deeper depression. Show More Sentences I lost my independence with my sight and sank into a deep depression for many years. The greenback dropped to its weakest level against sterling for seven months, and sank against the yen, the euro and the Swiss franc. As the Protestant middle classes began to withdraw from Unionist politics, the quality of the candidates sank and the party stagnated. Walking was tiresome as his feet sank into the surface by 4 or 5 inches every step. The sludge was so soft and sticky it had a quicksand effect, for the more he tried to free himself, the deeper he sank into the mud. She stood on top of the snow, unlike Hildor who sank knee deep into the white powder. He sank to a sitting position with his back against the door, pulling his knees to his chest. Adam's smile faded and he sank back into the bed, looking small and tired, sensing their thoughts. I sank into the pool completely, shook my messy blonde hair with my hands, and styled it back several times so that it would look more organized. With obviously limited spectator value it swiftly sank without trace before the next Olympics. As for movies, Blade Runner ran by them, Star Wars failed to shine, and Titanic sank without trace. The town of Catania lost all its inhabitants, and ultimately sank into complete oblivion. Audiences stayed away and the film sank away without a trace at the theaters. Her life sank thereafter into drug and alcohol abuse and institutionalization. I let out a hideous animal sound as I sank to my knees to finish off this beast. German submarines eventually sank 391 ships in the western Atlantic, 141 of which were tankers. Navy coastguard personnel retrieved seven crewmembers who had been working on a Sattahip fishing vessel after strong waves sank their boat. During that time German and Italian submarines sank nearly 2,900 merchant ships, suffering 867 losses themselves. One Carthaginian sea captain sank his ship rather than let his charts fall into Roman hands. Gale force winds and strong tides sank a rowing boat on the Thames in Barnes on Sunday. Show More Sentences Officials detonated three sets of explosive charges on board, and the 2,500-ton vessel slowly sank below the surface. Ninety years ago this week, the world's most famous ocean liner sank to a frigid grave in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. One man died and two crewmen were seriously injured on Thursday night when their cargo ship sank near Sai Kung waters. We just looked at each other as the boat sank silently to the bottom of the cold, black, incredibly scary lake. The grains submerged immediately on contact with the surface, and sank rapidly, accumulating at the bottom. Weakened by her flight, and the blow to her head, she fell under the water and slowly sank down, below the surface. The rock promptly sank below the surface, submerging the hook and its bait. As the sun sank below the horizon, the festivities ended with concerts, mostly of the dangdut variety. Finally, the top of the sun sank beneath the waves, and I turned in awe to Nick, beside me. In the evenings we gathered on the porch as the sun sank low and watched the animals come in. We were nearing one of Italy's most horrid swamps, and the ground beneath us sank freely underneath our feet. About 7 o'clock heavy seas swept over her and she broached, then sank by the stern. As the afternoon sun sank lower, the long beams slanting across the coffee shop floor made me want to curl up and sleep like a lazy cat. It was into this relaxing and snug atmosphere that I sank back into a comfortable bench seat and partook of a spot of lunch. Instead of returning to the surface, Sophie sank to the bottom of the 3ft pool. She sank below the surface and tried to see how long she could hold her breath. She threw his body into the sea from which she herself was born, and as he sank below the waves, anemones opened and flowered in his wake. The ensuing huge explosion blew the Hood apart and she sank in a matter of minutes. During WWII, German U-boats sank more than 5000 merchant vessels and many Allied warships. German U-boats sank the battleship Barham in the east and the carrier Ark Royal, which had helped keep Malta supplied with aircraft, in the west. Show More Sentences The sun sank below the skyline and cool purple twilight settled around them. I sank back in the hot water with a grateful sigh and closed my eyes as the tendrils of steam wound their way across the surface of the pool. They aimed to beach her, but the inrush of water was too great and the tugs had to cast off as she sank to the sandy bottom at 10.30 pm. He watched her in astonishment as she seemed to shrink into herself, and sank slowly onto the chair almost directly behind her. I sank deeper into my pit of shyness as I forced myself not to dwell upon her true intentions. My mixed grill looked good and the chicken opposite was tasty, but as we sank glass after glass of water something started slowly to dawn on us. Long after some fish stocks sank below their maximally productive sizes, fisheries' hauls continued to rise, says Pauly. Her husband, Kenneth, is an avid trap shooter and golfer who sank his first hole-in-one at the age of 90, she said. The ship became beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea on 18 January 1915 and was crushed and sank on 21 November. Dave sank down and sat on her front steps, breaths shallow, as though he was trying not to cry. One guard bellowed in alarm, the other in pain as Yuki sank her teeth into his arm and kicked his shin. Her topside passengers rushed to one side of the ship, and she rolled over and sank in the Chicago River with the loss of 835 lives. On hearing a toot from the regimental trumpeter, they sank their teeth into the rear ends of the men in front. My heart sank when I saw the titchy plane we were hoping would get us to Bremen. He sank back down onto the floor and tilted his head slightly, resting his chin on the back of his hands. Cooper based this conclusion on the fact that since 1892 the operation had been depositing materials, which sank to the river bottom. All of the younger class men sank to the floor in a bow, all except Jessica and Andrew. Roy sank 3 more and snookered Dave but he played a bank shot potting his ball in the centre! When the ice thawed, the Messerschmitt sank and remained at the bottom of the lake until recovered by Pearce. From what it sounded like, the trees fell, and over several summers sank into the mushy tundra marshiness. Show More Sentences Unable to find it she sank down and sat on the ground with her back against two scrawny trees. Because the boat sank in Isle of Man waters, the Manx government has jurisdiction over the investigation. Desperate for the off, they pawed the ground, bared their teeth and sank their fangs into each other's necks. With that, he smiled, closed his eyes, and then he sank into a deep sleep, unconscious of the sheep in the next field baaing for their breakfast. This aircraft was abandoned and sank after the Auxiliary Power Plant caught fire during one of these run-ups. They instantly began their workouts again as the sun sank dangerously low on the horizon. Back in the sanctuary of my dimly-lit rooms I ran the bath, stripped off and sank into the water. Gale force winds and strong tides sank a rowing boat on the Thames on Sunday. He sank back down, closed his mouth and puckered out his thin lower lip in a trademark sulky expression. I finally pulled it way left of the green, hit a bad chip and sank a 30-footer. After he left, Violette sank into her chair to await her aunt's return and to demand an explanation. Vasiliev, with whom I was walking hand in hand, suddenly left hold of my arm and sank upon the snow. The audience huddled in sleeping bags and blankets as the temperature sank below zero. Pressing her hand to her mouth to stifle a sudden cry, Lorna sank into a ladder-back chair. And then it finally sank in that he was beyond all hope, and that she was powerless to stop him. On Prince Edward Island, the storm knocked out power and sank boats at the Charlottetown yacht club. The 2002 British Open champion sank 14 reds before missing the penultimate black in the final frame of the day. The trawler at the centre of an air-sea rescue in the early hours of Friday morning sank in the afternoon. After that, though, there wasn't much to hold their interest, and they both sank into a doze. He was the good-natured guy who shot all those air balls and then sank a perfect basket. Show More Sentences She dodged his extremely slow blows and sank her fist into his stomach, winding him. Flagstones, kerbstones and garden walls all sank into the huge hole and one man had been forced to use his back door instead of the front. The reality of her mother dying sank in deep as she saw the look of fear in her mother's eyes. On the 28th of August 1791, the HMS Pandora sank off the northern coast of Australia when she had hit a reef, keeled over and sank. She sank back into the cushions, closed her eyes and placed both palms flat over her eyelids. Suddenly, with the burgeoning stadium looming not as the salvation but as a dangerous white elephant, they sank to bottom of the table. For a quarter of an hour they wheeled and circled, rose and sank and effortlessly rose again as the thermal draughts supported them. As the sun sank behind the mountains, they entered the foothills of a broad range of peaks. The oil is thought to have welled up from a small boat which sank on Monday after heavy rain caused the water level to rise. To ensure a reliable water supply for their garden and the house he sank two wells. It was so massive that the floor sank several feet downward under its weight. It sank quickly, and hit the bottom, settling back in place among its fellows. I sank into king-sized relief, only to find my jet lag and a two-week London hangover waiting for me there. A middle-aged man bit off part of a teenager's ear and then sank his teeth into his lip during a queue-jumping argument in a supermarket. She sank to the floor, watching as the green turned an ashy gray. The wheels of the tippers sank when the waste was being removed. The sky was exploding as the blood red sun sank below the horizon. I sank into the deep blue luxurious cushions and looked round. The philosopher, Plato, linked Santorini with the mythical lost city of Atlantis that sank beneath the waves. An older man with gray hair stepped into the room and sank down into one of the plastic chairs with a weary sigh, dropping his head into his hands. Show More Sentences It had a small shady verandah with weather-beaten wooden benches round the edge, and I sank on to one with an ice-cold beer in my hand and my toes digging into the cool sand. After a moment, Simon sank onto the edge of his desk, the rage dying. The cinema industry has been fighting back since its lowest point in the 1980s when admissions sank to 54 million in 1984 at the height of the home video boom. The French navy was the most significant victim of this period of experimentation and had lost several ships which had keeled over and sank due to design faults. Attempts by the chief executive to rebase the company's share options, even as the shares sank so low as to become virtually worthless, was typical of the decoupling. Rebecca sank down onto the ottoman, clutching the telephone receiver. The war seemed distant at that moment, as the sun sank before me, casting a rich amber light on the rooftops of a small cluster of buildings half a klick ahead. Jake almost fell off his chair as the other man's words sank in. Libya sank into civil war with NATO's desultory participation taking it toward stalemate, maybe even break-up. The story goes that a wolf crossed the path of Domenico and, as it was about to sink its teeth into him, a snake wriggled up and sank its fangs into the wolf. Earlier translations of a handful of the books, known as the SAS series in France, sank without a trace in the United States. In the years following World War II, Estonia sank into the shadows of the U.S.S.R., struggling with a failing tourism industry. Joel sank into the couch, smiling, while Ethan threw a balled-up eraser against the wall and laughed. In April last year, he sank his teeth into a Serbian player, Branislav Ivanovic, in the Premier League. As railways took over and the canals sank into decline this one was moored here as part of a landing stage in the late 19th century, and forgotten. Once in his stall, as soon as Adam had removed his saddle, he sank carefully to his knees and levered his body down into the straw, grunting bravely. About 150 of the 1,500 people who died when the ocean liner sank off Newfoundland after hitting an iceberg were buried in Halifax, and 43 never were identified. After France's loss of her colonial empire the merchants of Nantes and Bordeaux sank their capital in the arable land and vineyards of the hinterland. As a result of the total lack of surface water along the entire route, the South Australian government sank artesian bores at intervals of about 50 kilometres. At this, Sarah gasped and sank back ashen-faced in her chair. Show More Sentences Japan wants to raise the ship to confirm whether it was a North Korean spy vessel, but China is cautious about salvaging the ship which sank in its economic waters. Since the seacock was left open, water poured in and sank the boat. In 1992, as the former Yugoslavia sank into civil war, the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia, was surrounded by Bosnian Serb fighters, supported by Serbia. The Prestige, laden with 77,000 tons of oil, sprang a leak in November off the northwest Spanish coast and sank six days later after snapping in half. Meanwhile, they are six clear of Rangers who sank further into the mire yesterday when they could only get a draw at home to Inverness Caley Thistle. So we celebrated with a little feast of bilberries and then sank on to the comfortable cushions of these shrubs for a celebratory snooze in the sunshine. In this crowd, only Andy Warhol sank to the level of being totally, unashamedly star-struck. Pictures showed Lee being hoisted off the ship on a rope, aided by other crew members, well before the ship sank completely. My head sank between my knees, and I could feel my face blanching. Many of the famous blizzards and northeasters that battered the East Coast and sank ships in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean throughout history were bomb cyclones. This ship sank while underway, and now rests on its starboard side. She sank his chances in a single speech and a memorable phrase. As Sharapova sank to her knees at winning the Wimbledon title four months ago, she provided the perfect solution for the people who market women's tennis. Francis and Metropolis fell silent and sank into their seats. Exhausted, Ben sank into the chair and dropped his head against the bed. His grip on me slowly weakened, he sank to his knees, and he vanished. But as the world sank into depression, few could afford these cars. The troubled prodigies, Slater and Elliott, each sank into a deep funk. It is said that Schoen sank into a depression after the defeat. Incapable of reforming itself in the spirit of the new times, the decrepit empire sank into a deep economic and social crisis which it never overcame. Show More Sentences And he then relied on his putter for salvation at his two closing holes where he sank a couple of ten-footers that just about kept him in the hunt. We got to the end of the first hole and Warren sank a putt for par. Suddenly the entire structure, built on the unconsolidated sediments of the Tagus RAver estuary, sank into the sea, as if swallowed up by the devil himself. The orange cork wobbled and bobbled, then sank under the pea-green water. Stuck on a stalled train last week, I sank into Security and the hours whizzed painlessly by. Part of my botheration sprang from guilt, over not getting to my mail in a timely fashion, or getting to letters before they sank in the spam pits. In the 15th round the next day, before 16,000 unbelieving customers, Jim Jeffries sank soddenly to the canvas, his once awesome right draped over the lower rope of the ring. I parted the light net curtains of my bed and sank down beside Lucy. British light forces also sank V48, which had previously been disabled by HMS Shark. In 1840, Thomas Powell sank a pit at Cwmbach, and during the next few years he opened another four pits. Because the Earth was molten when it was just formed, almost all of the gold present on Earth sank into the core. Because the Earth was molten when it was formed, almost all of the gold present in the early Earth probably sank into the planetary core. On Wednesday, Russian fishing trawler Dalniy Vostok with more than 130 passengers on board sank in the Sea of Okhotsk, killing 54 people. Officer Sesoko, with the help of a nearby resident, threw in a discarded box spring for the boy to hold onto, but it sank into the murky water. The ferry capsized and sank after meeting a cyclonic storm Monday on the Brahmaputra River. The colonists sank into apathy until the arrival of Alexander Campbell of Fonab, sent by the company to organise a defence. John Balliol, whose star had risen briefly above the horizon, now sank into the twilight of history. Three months later, 'Thunder Horse PDQ', BP's giant new production platform in the Gulf of Mexico, nearly sank during a hurricane. He decided to abort the trip and return to port but on their way back the Diamond hit a rock and sank in the West Burra Firth. Two of those sank in deep water, and 12 more became bogged down in the soft shingle beach. Show More Sentences Nicklaus sank his four-foot putt and Jacklin was left with a very missable three-footer to level and force a tie. While negotiating the track, the front of the vehicle slipped off a cattle grid crossing a stream, and sank into mud, leaving it stuck. The task force sank an Argentine cruiser, forcing the Argentine Navy back to its home harbours. However, few arrived in advance of the infantry, and many sank before reaching the shore, especially at Omaha. Admiral Scheer quickly sank five ships and damaged several others as the convoy scattered. When it finally sank in, the crowd swarmed onto the field, cheering loudly and chairing Boyle and Spofforth to the pavilion. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm near Viareggio. This was significant as one ship sailing with King James' fleet actually sank in the storm. In the Norwegian Campaign, despite eight weeks of continuous air supremacy, the Luftwaffe sank only two British warships. The buzz as we walked through the turnstyle, sank a pint with our friends and punched the air as the ball hit the back of the net. Toward the end of his life, he sank into a morbid state, darkened by his drug addiction to chloral hydrate and increasing mental instability. He ordered her to move closer to the shore, disembarked her crew and emptied her cargo holds, and then burned and sank the vessel. Studying and writing lost appeal for him and he sank into religious melancholy. At the end of this period, the Earth's crust sank here which led to the area being covered by sea, depositing a variety of new rocks. The Farouk eventually sank and, luckily for nonswimmer Lockington, he hung on to floating debris until he was picked up by a motor launch. The two 12-year-old boys, one a nonswimmer, and the men aged 75 and 45, were thrown into the water after their boat capsized and sank off Wirral. The ship sank quickly and vessels in the area were still under attack during rescue operations, which saved about 2,477 passengers and crew. At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicatedlike condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. Disraeli drummed up support by warnings of a supposed Russian threat to India that sank deep into the Conservative mindset. Show More Sentences Four of the ships sank or capsized, with at least 1,450 dead, including the commanding admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. At least seven Orcadians died when HMS Pandora, sent to bring them to justice, sank after hitting the Great Barrier Reef. Her teeth sank into his lips, he felt the sweet galbe of her flanks and arching back. A MAN drowned yesterday morning when Galway Hooker, McHugh, sank in Galway Bay. In the next 20 months, mines delivered by aircraft sank or damaged 164 Axis ships with the loss of 94 aircraft. Kleph moved slowly from the door and sank upon the chaise longue with a little sigh of content. He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate. He tried to push Kissu into his cage, but the cougar charged back out and sank his canines into Wilson's rump. After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, nearly the whole world sank into a Great Depression, as prices fell, profits fell, and unemployment soared. Kublai sank into depression due to the loss of his family, his poor health and advancing age. Ibn Battuta's ship almost sank on embarking from Sri Lanka, only for the vessel that came to his rescue to suffer an attack by pirates. After the excitement of Christmas, we quickly sank into postholiday depression. Due to the weight of the armor gifted to him by the Tsar, Yermak sank to the bottom and drowned. The San Diego sank so quickly that the men for the most part were unable to disarm or abandon ship. My feet were firmly lodged in the quicksand, and the more I struggled the more I sank into it. The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west. The whole shaft thus gradually sank under its own weight, slicing through the soft ground rather like an enormous pastry cutter. Miners initially sank shafts to prospect for the pay streaks by building a fire atop the permafrost, then as it melted, shoveling away the mud. The Russian Submarine Museum was located here until 2008, when the submarine sank in a storm and was declared a loss. However, after his death in 1712, the Mughal dynasty sank into chaos and violent feuds. Show More Sentences We sank into the snow, several times so deep that we had all we could do to get up again. They walked to the nearest house, their boots making a schlup, schlup sound as they sank into the mud. Aristotle was surprised that the Mediterranean was deep but hardly imagined it sank to abyssal depths of four thousand meters. The gray flecks soaked through and sank wetly among the smooth pebbles underfoot. Then, after Handy sank the telling three-pointer, Phoenix put up an airball in response and the game was effectively over. Plenty to think about over an all-inclusive gin and tonic as the sun sank below the yardarm. Gavin Terry, 19, drowned after a party in a halls of residence where students downed vodka and sank yards of ale. Because rorquals sank when they died, later versions of the exploding harpoon injected air into the carcass to keep it afloat. Although the weaponry was successful in killing the whales, most of the catch sank before being retrieved. In 1782 numerous bodies of men, women and children from HMS Royal George, which sank suddenly at Spithead, were washed ashore at Ryde. The French had recently been reinforced by a force of galleys from the Mediterranean, which sank one English ship and seriously damaged another. While leading the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, she sank in the Solent, the straits north of the Isle of Wight. Fogg sank off the coast of Texas, nowhere near the commonly accepted boundaries of the Triangle. Lee first listed to port then to starboard and finally sank within about 15 minutes of the attack. In the meantime, the Spanish Navy ship San Telmo sank in September 1819 when trying to cross Cape Horn. In the First Division in 1976, they then sank to the bottom professional tier before reforming after a 1982 bankruptcy. A DECKCHAIR found bobbing in the Atlantic after the Titanic sank was sold for nearly PS100,000 at an auction yesterday. Despite several military moves and peace conferences, the war sank into a stalemate. In 2001, Petrobras 36 in Brazil exploded and sank five days later, killing 11 people. Fearing their loss, the British burnt or sank Santisima Trinidad, Argonauta, San Antonio and Intrepide. Show More Sentences It sank in a Pacific typhoon while carrying a cargo of iron ore from Canada to Japan. By evening, the battleship rolled over and sank to the bottom of the Tsushima Straits. Hunley, a privateer sank the sloop USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The two German ships then fired three salvoes each at Invincible, and sank her in 90 seconds. Russian mines sank one Bulgarian torpedo boat and damaged one more during the war. However, when the storm blew up, many of the severely damaged ships sank or ran aground on the shoals. The Hatsuse sank within minutes, taking 450 sailors with her, while the Yashima sank while under tow towards Korea for repairs. It leaves the impression that the airplane hit the water and sank whole. The Petropavlovsk sank almost immediately, while the Pobeda had to be towed back to port for extensive repairs. In 1988, frogmen planted limpet mines on a Greek ferry, the Solphrini, which sank in Limassol harbor in the Greekcontrolled sector of Cyprus. The trustees sank the Bute Merthyr Colliery in October 1851, at the top of the Rhondda Fawr in what would become Treherbert. And in 2002, Dennis Conner's Stars and Stripes USA-77 sank during trials after the rudderpost broke off, tearing a large hole in the hull. And then the writers seemed to want to lobotomize Justin into a kid who sank to his knees every time Brian got within 50 feet of him. On 9 and 10 June, the port of Cherbourg was subject to 15 tonnes of German bombs, while Le Havre received 10 bombing attacks that sank 2949 GRT of escaping Allied shipping. It takes 50-60 million years for all hafnium to decay and be converted into tungsten, and during the Moon forming collision nearly all the metal sank into the Earth's core. The Cinque Ports later sank with the loss of most of her crew. Some believe that in the spring of 1940 the NKVD towed some of the 10,000 unaccounted Polish military personnel out to the White Sea in barges and deliberately sank them. His volubility had left him at last, and he sank down wearily on my sofa. I felt that no words of condolence availed, and I let him lie there quietly. The slab sank so low in the mantle that it was effectively in a crustal graveyard, the team suggests, where convection was weak and the crust could stay intact. An incident played into British hands when, while passing Aden for trading purposes, one of their sailing ships sank and Arab tribesmen boarded it and plundered its contents. Show More Sentences As Mike parked the vehicle, its right wheels sank into an unpaved gutter gradually worn irregular and deep by the rush of rainwater flowing down the street. Over half of Argentine deaths in the war occurred when the nuclear submarine Conqueror torpedoed and sank the light cruiser ARA General Belgrano with the loss of 323 lives. The erythrophobia and the suicidal obsession, which did not yield to the influence of hypnotic suggestion, entirely disappeared and sank at once into the background. Warner is a big Aussie biffer, who sank a few tinnies and twatted a Pom. Chilled hands sank deep into pockets as their pets galumphed. The Solway Harvester trawler sank in heavy storms off the Isle of Man in January 2000 and its seven crew, from the Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire, were all killed. He became a hero the night the Titanic sank in 1912 when he rowed a lifeboat back to the schene of the sinking to save people from the freezing water. Admiral Roger Keyes planned and led the raid that stormed the German batteries and sank three old warships at the entrance to the canal leading to the inland port. The battle was inconclusive with no significant losses other than Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, which foundered and sank while making a sharp turn. He soon made ducks and drakes of what I gave him, sank lower and lower, married another woman, I believe, became an adventurer, a gambler, and a cheat. Finally I gave him a draught, and he sank into uneasy slumber. The vessel sank less than two hours after the Mayday call went out. Oh how I wish that Ron Harris had been in the Chelsea team when that vile little bucktoothed vampire Luis Suarez sank his gnashers into Branislav Ivanovic. In the decade after his death, Sullivan's reputation sank considerably. Discovered in 1900 by Greek sponge divers, the ship probably sank in the 1st century BC and may have been dispatched by the Roman general, Sulla, to carry booty back to Rome. The 'bottom of the harbour' scheme was so named because a company once stripped of its assets, was dumped and, like a body in a cement suit, sank never to be seen again. The company is currently conducting the archaeological excavation of the SS Republic, a sidewheel steamer that sank in 1865 with a large cargo of coins. She finally sank outside the Maritime Exclusion Zone on 10 May. The threat from submarines to hostile ships was demonstrated during the Falklands War when HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. In the deep snow, Paul was more like the bobcat, sinking only two inches into the snow while we modern snowshoers sank three or four times as far. Show More Sentences In the Second Battle of Algeciras, four days later, the British captured a French ship and sank two others, killing around 2000 French for the loss of 12 British. Nicklaus then sank his birdie putt, and with a crowd of 8,000 people watching, picked up Jacklin's marker, conceding the putt Jacklin needed to tie the matches. He won the Distinguished Flying Medal after shooting down five German fighters over Norway and took part in the attack which sank the huge battleship Tirpitz. While waiting to be summoned to his unit, Tolkien sank into boredom. Much of the royal and civic quarters sank beneath the harbour due to earthquake subsidence in AD 365, and the rest has been built over in modern times. Some historians believe that the Mary Rose turned too quickly and submerged her open gun ports, whereas others argue that it sank due to its poor design. The centenary of Ruskin's birth was keenly celebrated in 1919, but his reputation was already in decline and sank further in the fifty years that followed. Despite his publicity claiming many glorious victories, Napoleon's army was trapped in Egypt after the British sank the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile. The city later sank into the sea, only to be rediscovered recently. The Luftwaffe attacked the evacuation ships and on 17 June, evaded RAF fighter patrols and sank the Cunard liner and troopship HMT Lancastria in the Loire estuary. The British disabled the German torpedo boat V27, which the Germans soon abandoned and sank, and Petard then torpedoed and sank V29, her second score of the day. The ship sank, killing seven of the crew, and collapsing two pylons and 127 metres of bridge decking into water 110 feet deep. On the River Thames near London, 11 rowers had to be rescued after their rowing boats were swamped by huge waves and nearly sank. I heard the door click and a few footsteps and then suddenly, the left side of my bed sank. His ketch sank, however, and he soon found himself back at the bar, no longer as the owner but as barman under new manager Rebecca Howe. The Bismark's excellent fire control and high rate of fire finally shredded Prince of Wales, which slowly turned turtle and sank. The crew had raced out and were able to get them off the ship before she sank. Unfortunately, the ship was torpedoed while still in the Baltic Sea and sank. Of Scharnhorst's crew of 1,968, just 36 were rescued from the icy waters as their wrecked ship sank. Riddled with bullet holes, the flat-bottomed vessel sank, turning turtle as it did so and settling on the 7m bottom. Find more words! 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