Example sentences for: sink

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

  • The Id1 gene is expressed in developing leaves prior to their transition from sink to source tissue.

  • You expect him to sink beneath the level of audibility.

  • Baker's pedophile is so furtive that he's almost immobile, but we register the darting eyes under the bland, Mr. Rodgers-like façade, and as he waits for a little boy to eat a drugged tuna sandwich, we hold our breaths the way we did in Psycho when Norman Bates watched the car with the body of Marian Crane almost not sink into the swamp.

  • There are underdogs of a kind in his books--McCoy in Bonfire and the good family man Conrad Hensley in A Man in Full . But what horrifies the reader is that these sympathetic figures should sink into America's degraded lumpenproletariat . The lower orders in Wolfe's novels, such as those who populate the jail where Conrad Hensley is imprisoned, are barely above the level of animals.

  • The kitchen sink is filled with dishes that have been there for days on end.


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