Example sentences for: sank

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

  • But how to explain why being caricatured as The Dumb Guy sank Dan Quayle, yet G.W. is surprisingly buoyant?

  • In January 2000, their team had attempted to attack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank.

  • It almost sank the whole deal.

  • Actually, a graph of the changing value of money in the status market would look a lot like a graph of the Dow Jones industrial average: It rose steadily starting about 1982--the year a star New York Times reporter shocked his journalist colleagues by quitting the Times to become an investment banker--crested and sank briefly in the late 1980s, quickly recovered, and has been hitting new heights ever since.

  • Ten interpreters stepped from behind the throne.The English one at last explained the Holy FatherHad urged us all to wear seatbelts while driving.My heart sank at its plain good sense, as hymnsEchoed and golden canopies enfolded the pope,How like home it seemed, with my own fatherA preoccupied patriarch of practicalityWhen what was wanted veered wildly betweenThe gruff headmaster and the drunken playwright.Instead, I got the distant advertising salesman,The suburban dad of what turned out to be my dreams ...


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