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

A hurricane in 1839 drowned some 300 sponge fishermen in the ‘mud’ off Andros, and a devastating fungus some 40 years later killed almost all the sponges.
had like to have been drowned had it not been for a rope.”
Second, the numbers trying to use tactical 1 after the South Tower collapsed may have drowned out some evacuation instructions.
One drowned her paralyzed son by pushing him off a canoe on a family outing, leaving him and his 50 pounds of metal leg braces to sink to the bottom."
Or has erudition drowned out all good sense?