Example sentences for: sank

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

  • They located two wine-holding Phoenician vessels that sank near Israel's coast about 2,700 years ago.

  • It almost sank the whole deal.

  • Morgan died in 1588 before his task was complete, but nature finished what he had started: Jamaica suffered a powerful earthquake in 1692, and Port Royal sank into the sea, taking with it many of the treasures stolen from the Spanish.

  • The national savings rate, which ran at close to 12 percent in the 1960s, and more than 9 percent in the 1970s, sank to only 5.8 percent in the 1980s.

  • Dole, who at the rally had projected a steely excitement, the contained enthusiasm of a veteran politician in firm grip of his emotions but willing to share with his supporters what bits of them he must, sank back into himself, simmering in a glumness he wished he could contain but knew he could not.


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