Example sentences for: drowned

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

  • By some reports she shot herself; others, perhaps influenced by the obsession of Bonnard's late paintings, say she drowned herself in her bathtub.

  • But the cats' gentle purring is drowned out by the dogs' hysterical yapping.

  • It's too bad that the noise about Finkelstein has drowned out his co-writer, Birn.

  • That's the name of the sister who never made it out of Vietnam--who at age 15, drowned when bullets tore through the boat in which she was trying to escape.

  • This serene, arcaded palace, with its garden of lime trees and beeches — and the pond where Louis XIV nearly drowned — has had a past as colorful as its spectacular new flower beds.


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