Example sentences for: sunken

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

  • Inside, the monastery surrounds a sunken courtyard with an exquisite golden shrine in the center, backed by a pagoda temple decorated with episodes from the life of Buddha.

  • Within the Aquarium is an area called the Dig, a spectacular underwater environment complete with sunken “treasures,” vast stone columns, fallen temples, and godlike figures, all intended to show what Atlantis might look like while being excavated.

  • He was a raw-boned, sallow little chap with sunken eyes and lived-in features, the sort to be found aplenty in bygone days walking out mean-look-ing whippets in the thin gray mists of gloaming around any Ayrshire mining community.

  • And those hollow black eyes, scarred hands, and sunken chest--don't they seem just a bit sepulchral?

  • His face looks bruised and battered, and his small, sunken eyes show the marks where glasses were just removed.


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