Example sentences for: drowned

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

  • Or has erudition drowned out all good sense?

  • The WP goes more for narrative, with such passages as: "In county after county, meanwhile, people confronted hardships that seemed almost biblical in scope: Coffins sent floating away from low-lying cemeteries; portable incinerators being assembled to dispose of 100,000 dead hogs and a million drowned poultry; oceanfront homes being swept away; and thousands of residents living without safe tap water, telephones or mail service."

  • 1). After an impeachment-tinged year in which the Clinton marriage drowned out all other news (admittedly with a generous assist from Kenneth Starr and Paula Jones), Hillary's decision to run for the Senate forces the country to trek yet again through that tiresome swamp.

  • We've pretty much drowned that out."

  • Live artillery shells, a dead sea turtle half the size of a Volkswagen Bettle, a drowned giraffe, antique crockery, pocketbooks, chemical sludge, raw sewage and about 5,000 cords of driftwood a year--the waters of New York Harbor yield a strage and eclectic bounty.


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