How to Use drown in a Sentence

drown

verb

• The food was drowned in sauce.
• She fell in the river and drowned.
• Four people drowned in the flood.
• She claims that he tried to drown her.
• He tried to drown himself.
• The loud music drowned the sound of their conversation.
• The river overflowed, drowning whole villages.
• Brooks and Johnson drowned trying to help rescue the two boys.
  — Alison Cutler The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 15 Apr. 2023
• Once Merritt was drowsy, Abby led her down to the beach and drowned her in the ocean.
  — Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 10 Sep. 2024
• Yet the cheers for the Kings and boos for the Warriors were always drowned out by the home fans roars.
  — Kris Rhim, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• Some choose to plunge into bodies of water; however, the cold shock can cause someone to drown.
  — Cindy Luquin, refinery29.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• Any smattering of Angels fans who chose to boo him were drowned out by the grateful Angels fans and the Dodgers fans.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 4 Sep. 2024
• Involuntary gasping for air can lead to drowning, and the sudden increase in heart rate and blood pressure can cause a heart attack, the weather service said.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• The health industry is drowning in data and the volume is growing exponentially.
  — Brad Porter, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• The first of these provoked not boos exactly but a kind of generalized clamor that temporarily drowned out Harris’s words.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
• Lured by the scent, flies enter the trap through the cap and drown in the water.
  — Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
• Two small children drowned over the weekend in the Phoenix area.
  — The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• He is found dead in a pool, where he has been shot, not drowned.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2023
• And that’s when the camera cuts away and the music drowns her out.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
• Smith plays Lily, whose son, Daniel, drowned decades before at the age of 19.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
• The thing is, we get drowned in bar tools, accessories, and (eye roll) whiskey stones.
  — G. Clay Whittaker, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023
• Sometimes the best way to deal with sexism is drowning it out.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 23 Aug. 2023
• See me over there by the couple drowning in each other on the bench under the pine tree?
  — Jim Moore, The New York Review of Books, 1 Feb. 2024
• But aim too low, and a collection can drown in a sea of Lycra.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Not even the shrieking wind could drown out the screams of Jamal’s passengers.
  — Kristen Gelineau, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• The decline of Lake Powell has revealed Glen Canyon, the gorgeous red-rock labyrinth that the reservoir drowned in the 1960s.
  — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
• In this scenario, Spencer drowned and Sofia was left alone at the lighthouse screaming for help.
  — Caitlin Flynn, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
• In 1994, Smith put her two young sons in her car and drowned them by rolling the vehicle into a lake.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2024
• They are presumed drowned but their bodies have not been found.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
• Instruments and effects can sound out of place, vocals can get drowned out in the mix, and so on.
  — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024