Example sentences for: drowned

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

  • had like to have been drowned had it not been for a rope.”

  • But while he's thinking it over, Osmin goes into a paroxysm of bloodthirst, demanding that the four be first decapitated, then hanged, then impaled, then burnt at the stake, then tied up and drowned, and then flogged:

  • Second, the numbers trying to use tactical 1 after the South Tower collapsed may have drowned out some evacuation instructions.

  • There's also the great scene where Tom and Huck Finn, who are thought to have drowned, watch their own funerals as spectators.

  • 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."


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