Example sentences for: drowned

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

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • The ones that nearly drowned?

  • Cagney's corniness never really worked on-screen--the "goodies" were drowned out by windy speeches--but when he turned it upside down in White Heat , his great 1949 comeback to the gangster genre, he was unmatched as a ruthless pervert.

  • And when I drowned I sank slowly and meant every fathom.


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