Example sentences for: drowned

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

  • And for years, the faint voices of the skeptics were drowned out by the roar of an economic engine fueled by ever larger infusions of foreign capital.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.


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