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Example sentences for: drown

How can you use “drown” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

You might think that without judges to carefully control the flow of evidence, jurors would drown in a sea of irrelevant information--and trials would go on forever.
[Lit. to drown oneself in a glass]
To put that risk in some perspective, about 500 kids age 0 to 4 drown each year in residential swimming pools, which are legal and even customary to keep around one's house; that's twice as many as the fatal gun accidents for all kids age 0 to 14, even though pools are much less common than guns.
It presides over the portion of the Yangzi upstream from the massive Three Gorges Dam project, which sometime between the years 2009 and 2013 will create an immense reservoir and drown the most scenic section of the river.
I've tried to discreetly play music, but it doesn't drown him out.